Richard Anderson, an actor who played Lee Major's boss on "The Six Million Dollar Man" and starred in many other roles. I was staying at the Gettysburg Hotel in 1992 when they were filming the movie "Gettysburg." I happened to spot Mr. Anderson (who was playing the role of General Meade in the movie) sitting outside in front of the hotel (where he was also staying). I struck up a small conversation and then asked him to sign my copy of "The Killer Angels." This is the book that the movie "Gettysburg" was based upon. The last two photographs are the book and his signature inside of the book.

Samuel Lowe Book 1941
This is a rare book that has been stitched with a blue ribbon from the Harry S. Truman Library & on the reverse side is a ruler.
I was able to search & discovered information on Amazon, with somewhat the same book but only had three stories.
This particular book has all four stories.
1. The Story of the Little Dog
2. The Story of the Little Kitten
3. The Story of the Little Bear
4. The Story of the Little Duck & Rabbit
Any thought of where I can obtain information on if there are any books made like this before.

"Old-Fashioned Molasses Goodies" By Ruth Washburn Jordan 1934. This is a small baking book on how to make goodies with molasses....I'm getting hungry. There is a string attached to hang the small book in the kitchen. Found in a local shop.

roycroft press...1926 - 1933 a little nitch of mine to find all 8 or so of these printed and bound by roycrofts.,,,
my six of the series of volumes promoting the Nichols sanatorium at Savannah, Missouri, founded in 1896

Found Poems by Robert Main. Any info on this book would be nice. I believe it is the original because I've seen newer copies online for sale but this one is signed , dated and dedicated to his son Linsey Main. I've also read that there is an original ( signed,dated and dedicated to his son) in the Calgary museum.

Asian/Chinese
Soapstone Bookends
First pair has a carved bird (from Greg).
Second Pair has Flower Pot w/Flower (see this type a lot) from Thrift Store.
Due to all the snow we had last night I'm off work and bored to death!
I'm sure I will find some more stuff to post today ;)
Cabin fever will get the best of me!

This big and wondeful medicine & naturopathy compendium with popup anatomical pictures and lots of color illustrations, first published in 1888, is also known as "Bilz-Buch". This edition, though lacking the date of print, was very likely from the beginning of 1900.

My Big Little books. These are great little flip books. They were published by Whitman in 1975. My sister-in-law brought these to me as a gift while I was in the hospital. I was about 11 years old at the time (nearly 40 years ago). I still remember her bringing these to me.

I always loved the flip picture cartoons in the books. As you can see, one is of Donald Duck and the other is of Bugs Bunny.

I had completely forgotten that I had these, until I was going through some boxes and found these. It's funny that they're still not worth much more today than the cover price of .49 cents in 1975.

This book I have known for a short time, but the moment I sawit I knew we had to have it.

It’s a tribute book published after Xaudaró’s death in 1933 as a compilation of his works published in the Spanish newspaper ABC and its sister magazine Blanco y Negro. On page 6, the publishers dedicate the book to Xaudaró’s widow, the text saying that all profits made out of the book would go entirely to her.

Of course, the main feature in this book is the cover… or at least the main reason why I got it. I love the symbolic image of the dog looking sadly at the bell that’s fallen from its collar. It is sad image, isn’t it?

On pic.2 you can see Xaudaró’s portrait. You can appreciate he had a taste for Asian art, which wasn’t that rare as he was born in the Philippines (at the time it was a Spanish territory -the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico had the status of Spanish province, just like the French territoires d’outre mer in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans-.)

On pic. 3 you can see a bigger drawing, which was the type published in the magazine Blanco y negro (whereas the smaller ones in black ink were published in the newspaper ABC).

Finally, on pic.4, one of the very few vignettes where Xaudaró’s dog is a main character. I haven’t seen the whole book, but so far I’ve been able to find just two of those. By the way, please don’t ask me for a translation!!!… it will lose all meaning when translated (in any case I find his jokes pretty silly, having been made around 1920… )

"Modern Motorcycle Maintenance" - by Bernal Osborne - Printed in Britain & published by Temple Press Ltd. / hardcover book, 210 pages, illustrated
- First published in 1949, this is the First Edition 1950 reprint edition
** This book covers all British-made motorcycles in 22 separate chapters and includes explanations of various manufacturing metals and tools in addition to the maintenance, repair, and complete overhaul instructions for the various sections of a motorcycle, including exploded view diagrams and a complete section at the end of exact measurement specifications, (carburetor settings, valve & tappet settings, spark plug gaps, torquing pounds, etc.), for each brand and model of British motorcycles.

PICKED THIS UP TODAY AT A FRIENDS SHOP. IT IS IN GOOD CONDITION FOR BEING 69 YEARS OLD. COMPLETE AND CLEAN. 36 PAGES. A FEW OF THE PUZZLES AND PICTURES ARE WORKED. LOOK TO BE PROMOTIONAL FROM CEREAL COMPANY AND FREE WITH BOX OF CEREAL. JUST LIKED ON SIGHT.

I found a few very nice books today at Volunteer's of America for only 8 dollars ! "China a History in Art". "Cat's of the Metropolitan"and "Hiroshige in Tokyo-The Floating World of Edo" They are all beautiful books but my favorite is this little paper back "The Cat Made Me Buy It". A Collection of Cats Who Sold Yesterday's Products" The illustrations are wonderful and some are so funny and even creepy at times. There are 116 full color photographs and these are just a few. There's one for Coca Cola, a Kellogg's corn flakes ad and a sheet music cover. It was so hard to choose. I wish I could show you all of them but that would take 29 posts ! -Mike-

This is a 1931 printing of the "Calumet Baking Book" - recipe and cooking booklet published for Calumet Baking Powder Co., General Foods Corp.
- Paperback / 31 pages / illustrated with color drawings
** Calumet Baking Powder Company was an American food company established in 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, by baking powder salesman, William Monroe Wright. His newly formulated double-acting baking powder took its name from the Native American name for a peace pipe given to the lands now known as Calumet City, Illinois. Wright's company adopted an Indian head as its trademark. In 1929, William Wright sold out to General Foods and Calumet Baking Powder became one of its many name brands. Wright, a fan of horse racing, would use his wealth to build what would become a world-renowned breeding and training operation in Lexington, Kentucky, which he named Calumet Farm. - General Foods merged with Kraft Foods in 1990.

i found this at Urban Ore the other day. i think it's fairly progressive for 1952, and probably even affected US public policy. this was an early attempt to discuss genetics w/ the average joe, which makes it interesting too. i'm not sure whether other people are interested in stuff like this, but i am!

Here is a thematic, Art Deco display of items depicting mourning women. The centerpiece dish was designed by Farber Bros of Brooklyn, NY, circa 1930's. I think it's a candy dish, and the etched glass insert might be from Cambridge Glass Co. The chrome female nudes adorning the dish are often referred to as the "Weeping Nudes", "Cubic Nudes", or "Bashful Nudes."

I've flanked the dish with a similar themed pair of heavy pot metal bookends. I'm not sure of the manufacturer of these bookends, but they are often referred to as the "Mourning Lady" bookends. Also circa 1930's. I love the old bronze patina on these bookends.

What a gem this book is! As a professional printmaker and fine artist, I can honestly say that the images are outstanding and I hope to rephotograph to show you the inside. Stunning illustrations and prints! Love it so much!

Saw this sitting on a table picked it up and right off I saw it was sheep or goat skin cover, hand press ,on hand made paper and looks to be dated 1779... have no clue to what its all about or what languish it is written in.. any help would be great ..don't think I over spent only $1.00 smiling

I found this book at a thrift store yesterday for $1.00. It has all kinds of awesome recipes for so many things. It has recipes for different kinds of wine and spirits , recipes for horse wormer and also rat killer, cures for toothaches and for cancer, and recipes for freckle remover and instructions for how to regrow hair. I think it has 1002 different recipes in it. I feel like a witch doctor now, lol!

Booklet about Admiral Byrd's Antartic Expedition circa 1928. This booklet is filled with great photos! It originally was given away by the Tydol-Veedol Service Station in Greensburg, PA. It was published in 1930 by The Tide Water Oil Company manufacturers of Veedol Motor Oils- Tydol Gasolines

The Lone Eagle By The Blakely Printing Company Chicago 1929
Children's Book
Tells the story of the transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh. Really nice colorful pictures throughout. Another flea market find.

A while back I posted beautiful covers of camera catalogues. Shown here is a lovely cover from a 1906 Century Camera catalogue. In my opinion, it is one of the most artistically rendered of all with incredible romantic overtones.

As I’ve noted in other postings, the early 1900s was a time that Kodak (and other companies) were targeting women. The theme of this 1906 Century Camera Company catalogue is ‘a memory’ as described within:

“Who does not keep souvenirs to prize as the only visible recollections of memorable occasions? We cling to them as if they were the only connection between then and now; the link which, if lost, would let the occasion slip from our memory forever.

How we treasure the memories of other days, and yet how few of what were once memories—and cherished memories, too, have long ago faded—crowded out by new impressions. Times that we looked upon years ago, perhaps, as “red letter” days—events which we thought nothing would ever efface, have been worn smooth by the constant cataloguing of the new.”

They sure don't write catalogues like this anymore.

Anyhow ... Valentine’s Day is close ... keep your camera handy and take memorable pictures of your loved ones!

Antique pair of painted cast metal “Father Knickerbocker” bookends made by the Judd Foundry in Wallingford , Connecticut. Circa 1920’s. Cast iron bookends depicting Father Knickerbocker reading his book in his comfortable chair. I got these at my favorite local shop for a very good deal in the best condition that I have ever seen.
Father Knickerbocker was used as a symbol for a New Yorker after Washington Irving published his satirical 'A History of New York' in 1809 under the pseudonym "Deidrich Knickerbocker.

I bought these bookmarks at an estate sale. They look really old but great condition. They still have the original price of ten cents. They are still in the original package and marked
MADE IN TAIWAN REPUBLIC OF CHINA- there are 3 in the package and say prosperity, longevity, good luck. Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
ceja_51@yahoo.com

There is no date in this French coloring book. I love the colors and graphics. There are colored pictures along with uncolored pictures to be colored. It appears that this book was never used and it is in great condition! The back states:
Librairie Grund 60, Rue Mazarine, Paris (VI*)
IMP E. Desfosses Paris

This is a book of The Analects of Confucious. Printed in 1970 for the limited edition Club. The illustrations done by Tseng Yo-Ho are fantastic. The book has the original box anD signed by the ilustrator.

For your review, one of the few Big Little books I own. Number 33 in the series, Disney's Luck of the Ducks. Book is in VF+ condition. Donald, his nephews a Gladstone Gander escape pirates in this tale. Purchased this book at an antiques dealer in the Bruce Penninsula along with some pinbacks.
Enjoy

I have spent much time trying to figure out these bookends. I had the sense they are deco but not quite. I've narrowed down to an exact match to a pair of gold painted JB Hirsch that I discovered online with Chuck Decosta's Antiques (web site). Now I think I know my bookends were cast from this mold. This is fun following the information as obviously I am an ametuer in my knowledge. Any further information I would love to know. My guess is they are made in the seventies from the mold and that they have had some rough wear. Maybe they are art deco as the colors coincide. I bought at auction for not much money as I like the look.
I have learned a lot about different sculpture makers in my search.

This book is one of my collection of antiques books. Leather covers with gild page edges. It is the complete work of Alfred Tennyson poems, the first poem is dedicated to Queen Victoria. The illustrations are beautiful, you can see the pages have the weigh marks of the plates.
Tennyson was born in 1809 and die in 1892. I believe this book is the first printed in America. The book is in very good condition, minor wear on the edges of the leather covers, the inside pages all are excellent.

]]>Bookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/147529-one-of-my-collectionhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/147529-one-of-my-collection1934 American Printing of "Letters to a Young Poet' by Rainer Maria Rilkehttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/147434-1934-american-printing-of-letters-to-a
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This is a first edition printing of one of my favorite books of all time. I ordered it through Abebooks. it's a good time to buy the first editions of your favorite books these days. book prices are very low. i've bought so many copies of this book over the years. i give them to my god children when they reach 20 yrs old.

1920's Childs book " Happy Manikin in Manners Town"
A cute book that had my screen name and along with cleaning Manikins I also teach manners lol .
Published by Albert Whitman . With inscription on inside cover to a girl in 1923 for Christmas . This is a follow up of vintagelamps post

"The Arabian Knights' Entertainments" - Translated New Edition (1890)
- Copyright 1879 by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger
- Published 1890 by J.B. Lippincott Company
Hardcover book / 544 pages / illustrated with block print etchings
- handwritten inscription on header page, December 25, '90
** One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazar Afsan (Persian: lit. A Thousand Tales) which in turn relied partly on Indian elements. Some of the stories of The Nights, particularly "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", while almost certainly genuine Middle Eastern folk tales, were not part of The Nights in Arabic versions, but were added into the collection by Antoine Galland and other European translators.

"Ivanhoe" - by Sir Walter Scott - Copyright 1886 by Ginn & Company Published 1893 by Ginn & Company Publishers, Boston, U.S.A.
From the "Classics for Children" Series / other series titles shown on back Hardcover book / 542 pages / no illustrations / well used condition
- handwritten inscription on header page, September '93
** Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1820 and set in 12th-century England. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in romance and medievalism. The legendary Robin Hood, initially under the name of Locksley, is also a character in the story, as are his "merry men". The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw.

This is my grandmother's actual 1937 University of Washington yearbook, with a special inset and articles about the UW Crew team that won the Olympics, depicted in the recent book, "The Boys in the Boat".

You always come by items through association or flukes. 4 examples of big little books with either tv or comic themes that I acquired through trades and cheap finds.
Saturday morning genie Shazzan, Toy line Major Matt Masonl Batman and Spiderman among the few i have collected.
Enjoy

Nautical Art Deco bookends.
Maybe homemade (or boatmade:)
No idea what type of stripy wood it is. Theyre not heavy.
They've had damage & repairs by the look of it but still have a great Art Deco look & charm.

I recently bought three books at an antique shop. Though I am not interested in selling them as I love older books, I`d really like to know the value. If anyone has any idea i`d appreciate it if you`d email me at gabbyrepasky@yahoo.com. Thank You!!!!!!

This is the 1911 yearbook from the Oneaonta Normal School, now known as SUNY Oneonta, or Oneonta State. I picked this up for a couple of dollars at a show in Syracuse, because I live about 25 miles from where this was. The cover is a bit rough, but the rest is in good shape. Gotta love the styles! It was published by the Herald Print, Oneonta, NY. According to the Oneaonta State Milne Library:
"The Oneonta State Normal School, fondly known as “Old Main” in later years, was first built in 1889. The construction began in July of 1888 and was finished by September 4, 1889 when it was dedicated as the Oneonta State Normal School. On February 15, 1894, less than five years later, the building was destroyed by a fire. The fire spread from a storage room adjoining the furnace room and quickly consumed the entire structure. The school was rebuilt in that same year under the leadership of Dr. James M. Milne. The second Old Main was built slightly larger than the original. It was in use until the early 1970s. With the new campus, the building was no longer being used for classes. The college couldn’t maintain the building and it was offered to the city of Oneonta. The city did not have a use for it and it was put up for sale. It was sold twice and both times the owners intended to turn the building into apartments, but the plans were not possible. The building was demolished in 1977."

This 1883 book, the spine and corners are of leather, measures. 5 1/2 by 9 1/4 inches. This book is the complete work of Victor Hugo final edition after the original manuscripts. The book concerns of revolt in the Vendee revolutionens Sejr. Written in frech . I do know that Victor Hugo die in 1885 and the book was published in 1883 in Paris. If some-one out there knows if this book is the first publish/copyright, please let me know. Thank you.

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This is the auction catalog from the December 6th 2014 auction of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, this catalog is 100 dollars,but I got mine for 9.99 on eBay, I love this catalog it goes prefect with the 1999 Christie's auction of The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe

On the 14th of February 1966 Australia changed from using pounds, shillings and pence (sixpence, thruppence,'apenny, etc) to decimal currency, dollars and cents.

How do I remember the date so well? There was a song on the radio and television (not that we had one in our house) about the changeover set to the tune of "Click Go the Shears". It must have worked because I still remember it and I was in nappies! (nearly)

This book printed in 1965 in England is a ready reckoner to help with the changeover. I think if you could understand this book your mind was sufficient to calculate conversion by yourself, and the font is so small you probably read the wrong line anyway.

so...sing with me all you Australians!

"In come the dollars and in come the cents
to replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence.
Be prepared folks when the coins begin to mix
on the 14th of February 1966.

Clink go the cents folks clink, clink, clink.
Changeover day is closer than you think.
Learn the value of the coins and the way that they appear
and things will be much smoother when the decimal point is here!"

This is an Asian, possibly Japanese, book with print on one side of book, double page, and a beautiful drawing of the character on the other side. The book is all one piece and folds up accordion style with a wooden cover on the front and back. It is in very good condition with no rips or missing pages. This item was from my Grandmother's house and my Grandfather was in the Navy during WWl, I believe, and it may have been brought back to the US at that time, or it could have been from a later trip to Japan.

Beautiful Asian bookends. Thinking probably Japanese, not sure. Probably antique. These are gorgeous and very heavy. Finely detailed painting. Each slightly different. These are from my Grandmother's house that we are cleaning out. My Grandfather was a Navy Chaplain during WWl in and around Japan and was given gifts as payment for services. We think these may be from that time. Any ideas about age would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi
Everyone.
Other then collecting, working, socials thing, treasure hunt, i do also Birds Watching for 40 Years, use field guide when i start to help put a name on what you see.
I have many kind of field guide over the years, but when i discover Peterson field guide, i said this is it, this is guide tell everything on birds, over the years i become a specialist on birds, no so here in Ontario, but in Quebec city, i am well know Birders, i record them, i take pictures of them, i collected data on the field for the Canadian Wildlife for many years.In Quebec we have work on a book for 5 years"Atlas of Nesting Birds from Quebec" have 2 pictures i take in that book. Anyway I LOVE BIRDS WATCHING TO......
An one in the life time we have a Congress shedule in Quebec on May 1990, with a special guess"Roger Tory Peterson"3 day's of birds talking, i am in paradise, an i have my Hawk Field Guide sign, what else i would need.....

Thanks for Viewing.
Alan

Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.
-----------------------------------Background----------------------------------------
Peterson was born in Jamestown, New York, August 28, 1908. His father, Charles Peterson, was an immigrant from Sweden, coming to America as an infant. At the age of ten, C. Peterson lost his father to appendicitis, and he was sent off to work in the mills. After leaving the mills, he earned his living as a traveling salesman. His mother, Henrietta Badar, was an immigrant from Germany, at the age of four, growing up in Rochester, New York. She went to a teachers' college, and was teaching in Elmira, New York, when she met Charles. They married, and moved to Jamestown, a small, industrial city in south-west New York, where C. Peterson took a job at a local furniture factory.
--------------------------------------Career-------------------------------------------
Peterson's first work on birds was an article "Notes from field and study" in the magazine Bird-lore, where he recorded anecdotally two sight records from 1925, a Carolina Wren and a Titmouse.

In 1934 he published his seminal Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide, which sold out its first printing of 2‚000 copies in one week, and subsequently went through 6 editions. One of the inspirations for his field guide was the diagram of ducks that Ernest Thompson Seton made in Two Little Savages (1903).[3] He co-wrote Wild America with James Fisher, and edited or wrote many of the volumes in the Peterson Field Guide series, on topics ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles to reptiles. He developed the Peterson Identification System, and is known for the clarity of both his illustrations of field guides and his delineation of relevant field marks.[4][5]

Paul R. Ehrlich, in The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (Fireside. 1988), said this about Peterson:

In this century, no one has done more to promote an interest in living creatures than Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide.

Peterson received every major American award for natural science, ornithology, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary medals, diplomas, and citations from America and elsewhere, including the Linnaean Society of New York's Eisenmann Medal, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the Golden Ark of the Netherlands. In 1977, he was honored by selection by the two Swedish District lodges of the Vasa Order of America to be Swedish-American of the Year. He received nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize and honorary doctorates from numerous American universities.

He died in 1996 at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Roger Tory Peterson was cremated following his death. A portion of his ashes were spread on and round Great Island near Old Lyme, Connecticut. Another portion of his ashes are buried in the Old Lyme Cemetery also known as the Duck River Cemetery. A third portion of his ashes is inurned in the Pine Hill Cemetery, Falconer, New York in the family plot where his father and paternal grandparents are buried.

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown, New York is named in his honor. In 2000, the American Birding Association established the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Promoting the Cause of Birding.[9] A critically lauded biography, Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson (The Lyons Press. 2008) by Elizabeth Rosenthal, was published for the centennial anniversary of Peterson's birth.

Found these mixed in with a lot of old photos and negatives I purchased and I'm not exactly sure what they are. My opinion is that they are likely Old Bookmarks from either China/japan and they appear to be like Real Photo Postcards photos. I can't figure out the language so I was hoping someone could maybe help me ID these items.

First printed in 1936, this version from 1947, Farmhouse Fare is a collection of recipes from rural England.

The thing that is most striking to we 21st century folk is how mean and basic many of the ingredients were.
So if we made a nice dish of Siot all we would need is half a cup of oat bread soaked in 1 pint of buttermilk. Yum!! or not.

Lots of recipes using game, every bit of a pig imaginable, making your own cheese and more!
I don't think type 2 diabetes was an issue however.

Hi
Everyone.
I have this book for a while now, i being attracted for long time on advertising(in all form), this one when i see it,and in this immaculated condition, not even 1 page as being colored, this is a great advertising to Mr Peanut, quite a collectable those day.

Picture-1 Front Cover, Picture-2 Back Cover, Picture-3 Middle Page, Picture-4 Example already factory colored.
13 Colored Plates inside,30 pages total.
This book is in french, but when you look carefuly, the advertising product(pots,bags,jars) all of them are in english !!

There are ten volumes to complete the whole set. They were copyrighted, printed and published in 1906 by Funk & Wagnalls Company, in the United States of America. Mr. Bryan was his own editor with the assistance of, Frances W. Halsey.

Below is a link to where these volumes have been archived and you can actually go there and read or thumb through these awesome books.

https://archive.org/stream/worldsfamousora00unkngoog#page/n0/mode/2up

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
~William Jennings Bryan

This is an old item of mine from School that I got somewhere. It is a Teak wood Bookmark. At one end of the leather strip is the CAT, and at the other is a MOUSE. Fake jewels for Eyes, and other leather strips for the Ears, and tail for the Cat and Mouse

Cute vintage item that I probably got around the late 1960's and I kept in one of my old Jewelry box (all these years) as a keepsake.

Hi, guys! Happy New Year to everyone! Just wondering if anyone knows why a book would be stamped cinema props? I thought that was for items used on movies, not a book. Maybe one of you book experts would know. Thanks!

Very Heavy and what I think is a very old Cast Iron Dachshund Bookend. Front and Back end together measure about 11" long. It's about 6" tall. I've seen lots of these type Bookends and Doorstops but never exactly like this and all seem to be new Repros. Wish I knew more about this one, but with no marks, I may never know.

Here's a cake decorating book from 1952 for beginners to they can learn to make roses with the icing. I think this book was quite expensive for the times. It only has 13 instructional pages that are 5" x 7", the other pages in here are ads.

This actually belonged to my grandmother and she baked a lot of cakes in her time. I remember for my 5th birthday she made me a doll cake, a real doll and her dress was all icing.

For *manikin & walksoftly*( with rural Roots ) ....and all others members that enjoy a good read. Found this on-line about SASKATCHEWAN PRAIRIE LIFE entitled *LIFE ON THE FARM* from the old days with some very old pics. Nice to have vintage photographs in there to show how life was back then.

Link to Book:

http://www.byronsbooks.com/privatestuff/onweb/webpages/CORA.htm

Thought of you and that you might enjoy the read/the vintage Photos there. Great History and old photos!!

Early traditions speak of the arrival of radiant beings from heaven, self-sacrificing guardians of the human race who have reincarnated as pivotal figures in the panorama of human history to assist in the work of evolution. Secret Places of the Lion shows how these great ones have helped mankind for thousands of years, hiding their secrets in tombs, caverns, temple ruins, and catacombs. Posing as wanderers, they would declare universal wisdom and truth at certain periods of history when people were prepared to receive it; then they would withdraw for a time to see what was done with the new-found knowledge. Thus, the rises and plateaus of our cultural history emerged.

This groundbreaking, international bestseller, first published in 1960, couples profound insights into the hidden history of humanity and our perceptions of reality with the scientific evidence that supports the existence of paranormal activity, telepathy, and extraterrestrial communications. The first book to explore in depth the Nazi fascination with the occult, Pauwels and Bergier also broke new ground with their study of pyramidology, alchemy and its close kinship with atomic energy, and the possibility of a widespread mutation of humanity that would herald the dawn of a new age for the earth. Their study of secret societies, starting with the Rosicrucians, suggests that such changes are actively being pursued in the present day by a “conspiracy” of the most spiritually and intellectually advanced members of the human race.

The Morning of the Magicians also explores the anomalous events collected by Charles Fort, the work of Gurdjieff, and the history of the mysterious Fulcanelli, who was widely believed to have manufactured the philosopher’s stone--which provided the Nazis the motive for mounting an intensive search for him during their occupation of Paris. Much more than a collection of strange facts defying conventional wisdom, this book remains a sophisticated philosophical exploration of repressed phenomena and hidden histories that asks its readers to look at reality with ever “awakened eyes.”

-- "Antique Cars" by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu / ISBN 0-307-43121-5
- Golden Highlights Library - Published 1974 by Golden Press, New York
- Over 100 photographs in black & white and color of antique automobiles from 1885 into the early 1930's - in British car club terms, "Veteran" applies to vehicles made until the end of 1918, and "Vintage" applies to vehicles made up to the end of 1930. - Hardcover book / 80 pages / illustrated
- About the Author: Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu is a British Conservative politician well known in Britain for founding the National Motor Museum. Lord Montagu gained an interest in motoring from his father - who had commissioned the original "Spirit of Ecstasy" mascot for his Rolls-Royce - and with his family collection of historic cars this led him to open the National Motor Museum in the grounds of his stately home, Palace House, Beaulieu, Hampshire in 1952.

This is a Recipe Booklet from a series called the "Encyclopedia of Cooking"
First Series Booklet #115 - "The Candy Book" / Copyright 1941
It was published in 1941 by Consolidated Book Publishers, Chicago, Ill.
Edited by Ruth Berolzheimer, Director of the Culinary Arts Institute
paperback booklet / 48 pages / illustrated

This is "THE BOOK OF OLD SILVER" English•American•Foreign
by SEYMOOR B.WYLER.
Printedby CROWN PUBLISHERS inc., NEW YORK in 1937. This is the 32nd edition 1976...
its a great book and hard to get hold of here in the UK.
It has over 100 photos and more than 20,000 Authentic hallmarks including loads of American makers marks as well as european and England.. + unknowns ..
its a very handy book with 401 pages A4 size, dust covers a bit shabby but the books A1.. hope you like it ;-)

The Expressionists - A Survey of their Graphic Art - text by Carl Zigrosser, George Braziller, Inc., New York, 1957. lots of wonderful illustrations by everyone from Klee, to Munch, Kokoschka, etc... the printing is really exceptional and the tipped in plates are incredible too.

this is a large coffeetable book i picked up today at a used bookstore in san francisco for $20. i didn't know what fornasetti was before joining CW, and now i get goosebumps when i see fornasetti anything! thanks for the education everyone!

"Reveries of a Bachelor" (or: "A Book of the Heart") by Ik Marvel
- This edition published in 1893 by Home Book Company, New York
- Hardcover (embossed red with gold print and filigree) / 264 pages
** Written by American author Donald Grant Mitchell under the pseudonym Ik Marvel, and first published in 1850. - In the text, the author theorizes on boyhood, country life style, marriage, travel, and dreaming. A reverie is an irregular train of thought or abstract musing, and Mitchell writes on four different themes:
Smoke, Flame, and Ashes / Sea Cole and Anthracite
A Cigar three times Lighted / Morning, Noon and Evening
The first two reveries were originally published in 1849 in the magazine Southern Literary Messenger and in 1850 the four essays were published in book format to great public acclaim. It was one of poet Emily Dickinson's favorite books.

"Sport Royal - And Other Stories" by Anthony Hope - no copyright noted
- handwritten inscription on header page "Dec. 25, '96" (Christmas 1896)
- Published in 1895 by E.A. Weeks & Company, Wabash Ave., Chicago
- Hardcover (dark brown cloth with silver print) / 160 pages
- "Sport Royal" in three chapters / (9) additional stories by Anthony Hope
** Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (1863-1933), was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance.
Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name. In 1893 he wrote three novels (Sport Royal, A Change of Air, and Half-a-Hero) and a series of sketches that first appeared in the Westminster Gazette and were collected in 1894 as The Dolly Dialogues. Hope wrote 32 volumes of fiction over the course of his lifetime and he had a large popular following. He was knighted in 1918 for his contribution to propaganda efforts during World War I. There is a blue plaque presented by the Greater London Council on his house in Bedford Square, London.

my mother and father worked at saginaw steering gear during ww2 dad put the rifling in the 1919 barrels, and mom made trigger guards for the m1 carbine(I have one) in the 1970s two 1919s were found under a stairway at the plant 1 factory they were turned over to the atf and said to have been cut up (ya right) I was able to get down in the range at the plant 2 factory in the late 70s it was small about 25 feet long 25 feet wide with 4 test beds the barrels were put through a plex glass hole and they run a 100 rd belt into a hole in concrete. i picked up brass ID plates on the floor that were used on the guns, they also made 37mm skysweep AAA shells i also have one of them, it was fun to imagine what it must have been like to work there then. about 1978 the range was filled in with sand and concrete sealed forever.

Coronation Souvenir Book 1937. A Daily Express publication.
The Crown is the Crown of England, St Edwards Crown.
Used for act of Coronation rich with Diamonds Emeralds
Sapphires. Rubies. And Pearls,
The Orb, and Royal Sceptre with the Cross it is surmounted
with a Magnificent Amethyst cut in Facets on which stands
a richly jewelled Cross. Gold centre fillet and Arch studded
with Clusters of Gems and outlined with Pearls.
The Sceptre with the Cross is the symbol of kingly power
and Justice. It is of Gold and embodies a great drop shaped
Star of Africa Diamond Amethyst at top bears a Cross patee
Containing large Emerald and encrusted with Diamonds
The Letter By Edward the Eighth renouncing the Throne
[Please all men take note what your ladies would like for
Christmas.]

I've been collecting old books for a while now, to eventually populate an antique bookcase I've yet to acquire. I'm mostly in to ratty old books - the sort that look like they've seen a lot of use (or even abuse) - and especially the kind that have the ribbed spine bindings.

The most interesting ones so far is a legal book (2nd on the right - Maxwell on Statutes) that looks like it might even have blood on it... someone had a judge throw the book at them?! If only this book could talk...

The other, that I've highlighted in the other photos, is an interesting pre-feminist movement book on influential women in the Victorian age (as written by a male!):

"Daughters of genius; a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources."

The copyright is 1885 but the book was published in 1888. It has very detailed illustrations (or engravings) most all still with the thin protective translucent rice paper (?) attached. I found this at a thrift book store for $2.25.

The full PDF version can be found on the Internet Archives if anyone is interested: https://archive.org/details/daughtersofgeniu00part

Most all of my books so far are First Edition copies, but I've learned that this doesn't necessarily make them very valuable - other than the aesthetic value I place in them!

Royal Tour 1901 on H.M.S Ophir Voyage around
The British Empire with the Duke & Duchess of
Cornwall and York, Author and illustrator was
Able Seaman Harry Price. aged twenty four.
His writing and illustrating is first class. Born
Birmingham 1877 welsh parents . 1899 Joined
Navy served in navy to march 1919 left with rank
Petty Officer. Died June 1965 aged Eighty Eight
Pages not numbered about 100 size 11 1/2 x 8 inch
Places Visited are Gibraltar .Malta. Colombo.
Singapore. Australia . New Zealand . South Africa
And Canada Trip took Nearly nine months.
Book worth reading for the history through the eyes
of Able Seaman of early twenty century .

Found these recently and know nothing about them. They are practically new and have a lot of good information in them. There's the women, the forty-niners, the end and the myth, the railroaders, the Texans, the ranchers,the Spanish west, the loggers, the townsmen, the river men, the Alaskans, the frontiersmen, the chronicles, the miners, the scouts, the pioneers, the soldiers, the great chiefs, the gunfighters, the gamblers, the Mexican war, the trail blazers, the expressmen,and the Canadians.

The biography of a Gay Gordon. [Not the modern meaning of Gay ]
This Gentleman And Officer was the first Commander of
Fort Glanville a Victorian coastal Fort In South Australia.
His name was Jose Maria Rafael Ramon Francisco Gabriel
Del Corazon De Jesus Gordon Y Prendergast. Born Spain
March 19 1856 of scottish stock.from Aberdeenshire . His
Grandfather and Brother were owners of a large estate called Wardhouse
But because of a new law forbidding Catholics owning land one
brother became Protestant and the other went to Spain . After many
years and deaths the law was removed by the Duke of Wellington
Then prime minister. Gordons father Pedro Carlos inherited and
become Laird of the estate . Gordon went to school age sixteen
Become a lieutenant in Royal Artillery then for health reasons
Took a sea voyage to New Zealand Then Australia he served many years
Ending up Brig- General retired head of all Australian forces because
Of age weeks before First world war which did not please him.
He saw war under lord kitchener in Boer War. Also was one of the
first to fly in Australia in airplane and established first flying
school at point Cook near Melbourne.

This is the November 1935 issue of "Recipe of the Month" Magazine
Vol. 1 No. 8 / Published by The Cudahy Packing Company, Chicago, Ill.
Contains Thanksgiving recipes by Eleanor Howe, Home Economics Dept.
Paperback magazine / 16 pages / illustrated - *** Cudahy Packing Co. was a U.S. meat packing company established in 1887 as the Armour-Cudahy Packing Company and incorporated in Maine in 1915. It was founded by Patrick Cudahy and his brother John Cudahy, Irish immigrants from County Kilkenny whose family came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to avoid the Great Irish Famine. By 1922 Cudahy Packing Co. was one of the largest packing houses in the U.S. with operations in South Omaha, Kansas City, Sioux City, Wichita, Memphis, East Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles, as well as distribution operations in 97 cities. The original business is no longer in existence, but legacies are evident in Cudahy, Wisconsin (established by Patrick Cudahy as a base for his meatpacking business that still exists as the Patrick Cudahy division of Smithfield Foods).

This is a recipe booklet titled "My Meat Recipes" published in 1926 by the National Live Stock and Meat Board, Chicago, Illinois. - Printed for the International Live Stock Exposition held in the first week of Dec., 1926 and that had an attendance of over 110,000 visitors. - contains charts of meat cuts and 103 recipes for cooking them. -- Paperback / 48 pages

"Fairy Tales and Stories" by Hans Christian Andersen / Arlington Edition
- Published in 1891 by Hurst & Company Publishers, New York
Handwritten pencil inscription on header page - "Dec. 25th '92"
Hardcover book / total of 55 tales and stories / 314 pages / no illustrations
** Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories, called eventyr in Danish, or "fairy-tales" in English, express themes that transcend age and nationality. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermaid", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Nightingale", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and many more. His stories have inspired plays, ballets, and live-action & animated films.

"Henry M. Stanley in Africa" by Major Noel Claxton / Arlington Edition
Copyright and published in 1891 by Hurst & Company, New York
Illustrations of the Gate of a Village, a Boy of the Ionanga, a Fetish Woman, and the Camp at Ugogo.

"Henry M. Stanley in Africa" by Major Noel Claxton / Arlington Edition
Copyright and published in 1891 by Hurst & Company, New York
Illustrations of Stanley & Dr. Livingston, a Congo Family, and Ripon Falls

"Henry M. Stanley in Africa" by Major Noel Claxton / Arlington Edition
Copyright and published in 1891 by Hurst & Company, New York
Hardcover book / released binding / pages numbered 492 to 620
Illustrated with block plate etchings - some to follow in additional posts

Bought this at the same Thrift store for $2.50.
Loved this book when I was a kid..... Heck I still like it. I could pass this up even if I gets hung up in my closet.
Original 1963 advertising piece. "Where the Wild Things Are"
- Hanging from Trees by Maurice Sendak
Bottom left reads : FROM WHERE THE WILD THING ARE
Illustration Copyright 1963 by Maurice Sendak
Bottom right reads : THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
Image Size - 24 inches by 18 inches.

Army Officers Handbook is copyrighted in 1941. Contains 64 pages of text including chart of organization of Army, characteristics of weapons, table of poison gases, last will and testament, 1942 pay tables, map signs and symbols, leads in antiaircraft and antitank defence....

Nine months ago I shared a post on two Art Déco “botijos” in the shape of dogs. These dogs had been made after Joaquín Xaudaró's famous dog that used to appear in virtually all his drawings ( http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/116019-art-deco-botijos-in-the-shape-of-the-x?in=collection-2126 ).

We just found one of Xaudaró's books: a compilation of graphic humour, and as you can see on the cover -and back cover- the dog is an important character! (pics.1 and 2) I have to say the dog appears in every single vignette (see pic.3), BUT there are two vignettes were the dog isn't alive...
In one of them, taking place in a doctor's office at a hospital, where puppies are not allowed, the dog is dead and kept in a big jar full of formaldehyde. On the second one (pic.4), the dog appears in the shape of a ceramic figurine or botijo -just like the ones I shared seven months ago- placed on top of a piano...

So you can learn more about Xaudaró, here's what's said about it at the Wikipedia:
“Joaquín Xaudaró y Echau (August 17, 1872 – 1933) was a Spanish cartoonist, illustrator, and caricaturist. His humorous depictions of the new technologies of his time –he published a volume of cartoons called The Perils of Flight (Les péripéties de l'aviation, Garnier Frères, Paris, 1911)- serve as an important link between the worlds of nineteenth-century illustration and twentieth-century cartooning. Xaudaró's observations on contemporary culture and technology, as well as his gentle but insightful sense of humor, are apparent in such cartoons as "El telégrafo sin hilos," "Un retrato futurista," "El auto que pasa," "Despertar en Biarritz," "El leopardo inglés en Spyon-Kop."
Born in Vigan in the Philippines (at the time still a Spanish possession), Xaudaró's family, of Aragonese origin, settled in Barcelona in 1883. Xaudaró was educated in Paris and London. He began his career drawing for Madrid Cómico, La Saeta, Gedeón, and Barcelona Cómica, a Barcelona-based humor magazine of the 1890s, occasionally utilizing the pseudonym J. O'Raduax ("Xaudaró" spelled backwards). Between 1907 and 1914, he also drew for the Paris-based periodical Le Rire.
Xaudaró subsequently worked for the Madrid-based periodicals Blanco y Negro and ABC. His daily vignettes for ABC brought him fame, with each one containing a trademark little dog that soon became known as "el perrito de Xaudaró."
His book illustrations include those commissioned by the Paris publisher Ollendorff (Les conteurs joyeux), and famously, those utilized for Juan Pérez Zúñiga's Los viajes morrocotudos ("The Fantastic Voyages"). Xaudaró's works of collected cartoons include Los Sports, an album of sports-related vignettes published by Editorial Luis Tasso in the 1920s and Xaudaró: Tomos de Chistes (ca. 1932), a collection of his work that had been published in Blanco y Negro at the end of the nineteenth century.
Xaudaró also did scenographical work for a production of Madame Butterfly. At the end of his life, he founded, with Antonio Got and K-Hito, the Sociedad Española de Dibujos Animados (SEDA) in 1932.He collaborated on an animated film with K-Hito. Xaudaró died in Madrid.”

I found these bookends tonight at Goodwill. I just adore them. Only found one other set like it online, except theirs are a beautiful green marble color. I'd like to find out more about these but have little to go on other than the one other post which didn't have much info either.

This "special edition" of Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was published in 1900... Just eight years after it's original publication. It was limited to a run of 50,000 copies!!!! Probably worth $20...lol... Still a cool old book though.

This slender little volume is a bit of a mystery to me. I'm not sure if it was something handed out to all service men as part of their regular military accoutrements or if as I've read on a couple sites it was given to the chaplains corps... Anyway, It's a cool little book that may or may not have seen action during WW2 Anybody know more about these?

This was one of my gifts to Carlos on our 3rd anniversary. I have to say I gave him lots of books... only I wasn't patient enough and I spent the two months prior to our anniversary giving him a book every couple of weeks.

I think he loved this -and a couple more Spanish books- because they're actually quite rare.

this book is an anthology of Spanish American poetry. I find the illustration very adequate to it.

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Alexandre de Riquer i Ynglada, 7th Count of Casa Dávalos (1856 - 1920), was a versatile Spanish designer, illustrator, painter, engraver, writer and poet. He was one of the leading figures of Catalan Art Nouveau.

Riquer studied in France and due to his interest in the drawing classes he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse. Then returned to Barcelona to continue his studies at the art school of La Llotja. He entered the world of publishing, mostly ornamental lettering and cover illustration. In the following years he designed jewelry, programs, furniture decoration and ceramic painting.

English art and Japanese art caused a great influence on his creations. (in fact, in this design one can see some features that remind us of Aubrey Beardsley) Riquer distinguished himself as a graphic designer with great drawing skills. He made posters, etchings, illustrations in books and magazines, certificates, postcards, stamps, menus, sheet music, business cards and bookplates (up to 142 of them between 1900 and 1924).

And just a curio about him: one of the reasons why he worked so much is that during the 12 years after his marriage, he had nine kids!!! That is something! :)

On Pic4 you can see some of his work as well as a great portrait made by the great catalan painter Ramón Casas

The Lufkin Precision Tool catalog #7 pictured on the left was published in 1935. The one on the right in 1949. Do you want to unravel the publishing dates for their pre-1960 catalogs? I’ve taken the bull-by-the-horns and did some historical research. You might be surprised to learn that there are actually 8 different versions of Catalog #7.
I’ve posted the findings of my study on the following site –
https://sites.google.com/site/theguideforwoodmachinistchests/
Click on the ‘Lufkin’ pages 41, 42 and 43.
Hope this helps and have a good one. Ted

I recently acquired a collection of drawings, photographs, letters, etc..., that once belonged to Eleanor Dalton, longtime girlfriend of former Disney artist (Dumbo, Pinocchio, Fantasia) and children's book illustrator (Little Golden Books), Aurelius Battaglia. After much research, I discovered that I have three of Battaglia's unpublished book dummies.

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The crowning work of the best-selling Earth Chronicles series

• Reveals the existence of physical evidence of alien presence on Earth in the distant past

• Identifies and describes the demigods, such as Gilgamesh, descended from these visitors

• Outlines the tests of this physical evidence of alien presence that could unlock the secrets of health, longevity, life, and death

In whose genetic image were we made? From his first book The 12th Planet on, Zecharia Sitchin has asserted that the Bible’s Elohim who said “Let us fashion The Adam in our image and after our likeness” were the gods of Sumer and Babylon--the Anunnaki who had come to Earth from their planet Nibiru. The Adam, he wrote, was genetically engineered by adding Anunnaki genes to those of an existing hominid, some 300,000 years ago. Then, according to the Bible, intermarriage took place: “There were giants upon the Earth” who took Adam’s female offspring as wives, giving birth to “heroes of renown.” With meticulous detail, Sitchin shows that these were the demigods of Sumerian and Babylonian lore, such as the famed Mesopotamian king Gilgamesh as well as the hero of the Deluge, the Babylonian Utnapishtim.

Are we then, all of us, descendants of demigods? In this crowning oeuvre, Zecharia Sitchin proceeds step-by-step through a mass of ancient writings and artifacts, leading the reader to the stunning Royal Tombs of Ur. He reveals a DNA source that could prove the biblical and Sumerian tales true, providing conclusive physical evidence for past alien presence on Earth and an unprecedented scientific opportunity to track down the “Missing Link” in humankind’s evolution, unlocking the secrets of longevity and even the ultimate mystery of life and death.

• Contains detailed summations, commentaries, and instructions for locating topics within all the author’s books

The Earth Chronicles series, a historical and archaeological adventure into the origins of mankind and planet Earth, began with the publication of the bestselling The 12th Planet. The series is based on the premise that the myths from the world’s earliest civilizations were in fact recollections of actual events and that the gods of ancient peoples were visitors to Earth from another planet--the Anunnaki, inhabitants of the 12th planet. The series’ books include The 12th Planet, The Stairway to Heaven, The Wars of Gods and Men, The Lost Realms, When Time Began, The Cosmic Code, and The End of Days, all products of the author’s unmatched study of the ancient records of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Israel, and Egypt and the civilizations of pre-Columbian America. Unearthing the hidden history of Earth and mankind, the series uses the past to unveil the meaning of the prophesied future.

Zecharia Sitchin has created an encyclopedic compendium of the key figures, sites, concepts, and beliefs to provide a unique navigational tool through this entire opus. Entries are coded to indicate at a glance their cultural origin and contain summations, commentaries, and guidance for locating the topics within all of his books, including Genesis Revisited, Divine Encounters, The Lost Book of Enki, The Earth Chronicles Expeditions, and Journeys to the Mythical Past.

The interaction between mankind and spiritual beings -- of Divine Encounters -- as recorded inscriptures and ancient texts provides a powerful drama that spans Heaven and Earth, involving worship and devotion, eternity and mortality, love and sex, jealousy and murder. But how much of these are based on real happenings and how much is based on myth?

With a visionary's ardor and a scientist's attention to detail, Zecharia Sitchin, author of The Earth Chronicles, gives a stunning account of human interaction with celestial travelers. He also provides further proof that prophetic dreams,visions, UFO encounters, and other extraordinary phenomena are indeed the hallmark of intervention by intergalactic emissaries who reach out from other realms to enlighten, guide, punish, and comfort us in times of need. Sitchin's research and theories, illustrated with maps and charts, chronicle a magnificent and inspiring journey through history, from the dawn of time to the approach of the millennium.

Space travel . . . Genetic engineering . . . Computer science . . . Astounding achievements as new as tomorrow. But stunning recent evidence proves that as these ultramodern advances were known to our forfathers millions of yrsterdays ago . . . as early as 3,000 years before the birth of Christ!

In this remarkable companion volume to his landmark EARTH CHRONICLES series, author Zecharia Sitchin reexamines the teachings of the ancients in the light of mankind's latest scientific discoveries -- and uncovers breathtaking, never-before-revealed facts that challenge long-held, conventional beliefs about our planet and our species.

]]>Books / Signed Bookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/140458-genesis-revisited-by-zecharia-sitchinhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/140458-genesis-revisited-by-zecharia-sitchinThe End of Days by Zecharia Sitchinhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/140457-the-end-of-days-by-zecharia-sitchin
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Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.?
Is history destined to repeat itself?Will biblical prophecies come true, and if so, when?

It has been more than three decades since Zecharia Sitchin's trailblazing book The 12th Planet brought to life the Sumerian civilization and its record of the Anunnaki—the extraterrestrials who fashioned man and gave mankind civilization and religion. In this new volume, Sitchin shows that the End is anchored in the events of the Beginning, and once you learn of this Beginning, it is possible to foretell the Future.

In The End of Days, a masterwork that required thirty years of additional research, Sitchin presents compelling new evidence that the Past is the Future—that mankind and its planet Earth are subject to a predetermined cyclical Celestial Time.

In an age when religious fanaticism and a clash of civilizations raise the specter of a nuclear Armageddon, Zecharia Sitchin shatters perceptions and uses history to reveal what is to come at The End of Days.

Many thousands of years ago, a group of extraterrestrials from another planet guided the evolution of life on Earth—determining the existence and nature of humankind as we know it today. How did the master builders from the stars construct the miracle called man? Is the DNA that is at the core of all life in the universe a "cosmic code" that links Earth to heaven and man to God?

In this sixth volume of The Earth Chronicles, Zecharia Sitchin unveils writings from the past to decipher prophesies, and reveals how the DNA-matched Hebrew alphabet and the numerical values of its letters serve as a code that bares the secrets of mortal man’s fate and mankind’s celestial destiny.

In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors came to the New World in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. Instead, they encountered inexplicable phenomena that have puzzled scholars and historians ever since: massive stone edifices constructed in the Earth's most inaccessible regions . . . great monuments forged with impossible skill and unknown tools . . . intricate carvings describing events and places half a world away.

Who were the bearded "gods of the golden wand" who had brought civilization to the Americas millennia before Columbus? Who were the giants whose sculpted stone heads in Mesoamerica still mystify to this day?

In this remarkably researched fourth volume of The Earth Chronicles, author and explorer Zecharia Sitchin uncovers the long-hidden secrets of the lost New World civilizations of the Olmecs, Aztecs, Mayas and Incas, and links the conquistadors' quest for El Dorado to the extraterrestrials who searched there for gold long before.

Thousands of years ago, the Earth was a battlefield. These were the wars that would shape man's destiny—terrible conflicts that began lifetimes earlier on another planet.

Parting the mists of time and myth, the internationally renowned scholar Zecharia Sitchin takes us back in this volume to the violent beginnings of the human story, when gods—not men—ruled the Earth.

In a spellbinding reconstruction of epic events preserved in legends and ancient writings, he traces the conflicts that began on another world, continued on Earth, and culminated in the use of nuclear weapons—an event recorded in the Bible as the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Since earliest times, human beings have pondered the incomprehensible questions of the universe, life . . . and the afterlife. Where did mortal man go to join the immortal Gods? Was the immense and complex structure at Giza an Egyptian Pharaoh's portal to immortality? Or a pulsating beacon built by extraterrestrials for landing on Earth?

In this second volume of his trailblazing series The Earth Chronicles, Zecharia Sitchin unveils secrets of the pyramids and hidden clues from ancient times to reveal a grand forgery on which established Egyptology is founded, and takes the reader to the Spaceport and Landing Place of the Anunnaki gods—"Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came."

Noorbergen wrote this book in 1977. It was one of the first books to discuss out of place artifacts. In the book Noorbergen rejected evolution and claimed that mankind was more superior in the past. He argued that advanced technology had existed on earth 1000s of years ago and that civilization has fallen into degeneration due to a global flood.

In the early part of the 18th Century Coca Cola was under the spotlight because of the Pure Food and Drug Act. This in part because of debate around it's use of caffeine. This 16 page booklet and others defended Coca Cola's position that caffeine was natural and had medicinal purposes.

Not a head turning or high priced item, but interesting because of the history behind the early product.

Hello CW!
Since time ago I was looking for this type of old ephemera and I found it!!
They are german victorian embossed die cuts.
Wonderful colors in children designs, birds and flowers.
I dont know the time when they were printed but I think are old.
With love,
Virginia

This is the 1999 Christie’s Catalog, This auction was coined the “The Sale of The Century,”. I found my copy of this catalog on Amazon for around 51 dollars. This is a must have for any Marilyn Monroe collector

1945 - "History of World War II" - Armed Services Memorial Edition
- Copyright 1945 by Ann Woodward Miller / Printed in the U.S.A.
- Authored and compiled by Francis Trevelyan Miller, LITT.D, LLD.
- Published by the Universal Book and Bible House, Philadelphia, PA
- The Armed Services Memorial Edition includes three Service Records pages before the title page as shown in picture #2 - (all three pages are unused)
- Blue color hardcovers with gold title print / 966 pages / fully illustrated in sections with World War II official records, historical war photographs (many full page), and maps.

Got lucky on this piece as a customer was going through her storage lot, she was throwing into the dumpster some frames and furniture pieces. She was about to pitch this in when I asked for it. After doing some research I know it's french but don't have any idea what it says, or what the map shows, anyone knows french and can interpret it would be appreciated.
This is the Heading......
Evesché de Luçon dedié a Monseigneur Messire Henry de Barrillon, evesque et baron de Luçon / par G. Sanson
I know the cartographer is G. Sanson
I know with the fold in the map this was removed from a book. Much past that I need help.

From left. The Forlorn Hope ,Dated 1893 Published by Nelson.
Author, Charlotte Maria Tucker. but her books never had her
name in them she signed the books A.L.O.E [A lady of England.]
In side cover, Presented to Ludowine Koster by the Houghton
Congregational Sabbath School Easter 1894.
Second book A Strange Craft and a Wonderful Voyage.
by Edward S Elles Published by Cassell and Company 1898 .
Third .The Three Midshipmen by W.H.G Kingston.
Published by Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton.1911

This is a Recipe Booklet from a series called the "Encyclopedia of Cooking"
Booklet #105 - "250 Superb Pies and Pastries" - (Complimentary copy)
It was published in 1949 by Consolidated Book Publishers, Chicago, Ill.
Edited by Ruth Berolzheimer, Director of the Culinary Arts Institute
Original copyrights 1941 and 1949 by Book Production Industries, Inc.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - paperback booklet / 48 pages / illustrated

According to Trench in this book The Sky People, Adam and Eve, Noah any many of the other characters from the Bible originally lived on Mars. Trench believed that Adam and Eve were experiment creations of extraterrestrials. His claim was that the Biblical description of the Garden of Eden was inconsistent with what was on Earth and as Mars contained canals, that the Garden of Eden must have been located on Mars. He further claimed that the north polar ice cap melted on Mars, and this caused the descendants of Adam and Eve to move to Earth.

Was curious as to some information about this prayer book I just found at a thrift store. It's absolutely beautiful and I can't seem to find much out about it!

]]>Bookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/139806-gorgeous-thrift-store-findhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/139806-gorgeous-thrift-store-findA Souvenir of the The Great Warhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/139523-a-souvenir-of-the-the-great-war
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Book of Poems - Romar's Journal (A Souvenir of the Great War 1914-1918)
Author - W.A. Watt (Australian Prime Minister). This is a first edition book and was printed for private circulation only. I am trying to obtain a valuation for this book, any advice would be most welcome.
Many thanks.

"The War of the Worlds" - by H.G. Wells - Copyright 1897 by H.G. Wells Copyright 1898 by Harper & Brothers / Copyright 1926 by Herbert G. Wells Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York / inscription Christmas, 1939
Hardcover book with dust cover / 292 pages / SCIENCE FICTION
** The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The first appearance in book form was published by William Heinemann of London in 1898. It is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and that of his younger brother in London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.

"Faust" - by Goethe. - Copyright 1890 by Frederick A Stokes & Brother Published 1890 by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York
Vignette Edition / Hardcover book / 360 pages / illustrated ink drawings
- handwritten inscription on header page, January 12th, 1896
** Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts:
Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil and Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil - Goethe completed a preliminary version of Part One in 1806. The 1808 publication was followed by the revised 1828–29 edition, which was the last to be edited by Goethe himself. Goethe finished writing Faust Part Two in 1831. In contrast to Faust Part One, the focus here is no longer on the soul of Faust, which has been sold to the devil, but rather on social phenomena such as psychology, history and politics, in addition to mystical and philosophical topics. The second part formed the principal occupation of Goethe's last years. It appeared only posthumously in 1832. - Faust is Goethe's most famous work and considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature.

"The House of the Seven Gables" - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Copyright 1851 by Nathaniel Hawthorne / Copyright 1879 by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop / Copyright 1883 by Houghton, Mifflin & Company
Published 1893 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York
Salem Edition / Hardcover book / 375 pages / LITERATURE
** The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel that follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by a 1668 gabled colonial mansion in Salem belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. - The house is currently a non-profit museum.

I have tried looking this book up, but I am having a hard time finding out much about it. I know its a reproduction of the musical score with his notes and annotions in red and green, but I don't know the significance of it. It is priced over $250 on Abe Books UK. I know that doesn't mean anything, but I'm just curious as to the significance of this music and composer. Is this a highly sought after thing? Thanks!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll with 40 illustrations by John Tenniel. Have not been able to find a copyright date or publication date anywhere on this book. Cover is made of a fabric type material.
This book belonged to my great aunt Millie. She would read this book to my mother when she was little, and it became my mother's favourite book. Great Aunt Millie eventually gave it to my mother, who in turn gave it to me. Written inside...
"Mildred's birthday 1904"
"That she will always be as kindly affectionate and thoughtful of others as she now is...these are the words of her sincere friend"
signed Rollo S. Sampson.

I bought this at a thrift store for $2.00 and got 3 bonuses inside.
The Book was about Buisness Letter Writing tips around the turn of the century, but inside I found...... Sheet music titled "TOY FOR SELL"
A program from 1915 about the Liberty Bell while on Tour to California.
And a Broadside display sheet for the returning 96th Fighting Irish from World War One.

Hello CW!
I want to share today a vintage book from United States of America.
Copyright in 1953 by F.E. COMPTON & COMPANY.
Has 345 pages, i found it in a flea market.
To the reader: " Though the pages of this booklet we invite you to new adventures in the study of the United States of America.
...From it can be derived a greater appreciation of our country and its people and a better understanding of our way of life."
Has many maps, photos and lovely illustrations.
With love,
Virginia

One of the first to develop ancient astronaut themes, including "proofs" that many ancient civilizations were colonies of extraterrestrials who eventually lost their technological secrets and became indistinguishable from humans, and/or that many other ancient civilizations were the result of human contact with aliens.

Drake spent many years digging through huge archives of material, looking in his case for supposed anomalies that could support his scenarios of space aliens impacting human history.

The shattering truth of human origins. First published in 1996, Gods of the New Millennium challenges the established theories of evolution and divine creation with a scientific theory that flesh-and-blood gods created man “in their own image”, using genetic engineering.

In a supremely researched and extensively referenced 500-page book, Alan Alford sets out the full scientific evidence for his interventionist theory, which enables us to identify the gods as the architects of the Pyramids, Sphinx, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, the Nazca Lines and other ancient sites.

Alford leaves few questions unanswered in this tour-de-force which explains who the gods were, where they came from, why they came to Earth, why they created mankind and where they may be now.

The controversial conclusion is that man may literally be about to meet his makers...

Hello CW!
This is a vintage children book "Little red riding hood".
Printed in Buenos Aires in 1963 by Compañia General Fabril Editora.
Illustrations by Shiba Productions.
As you can see the photographed characters are like rag dolls.
Isnt in so good conditions but I love it.
With love,
Virginia

The book has 246 pages with drawings from contemporary artists from , Great Britain, Irland, Holland, France, Austria, Germany and Sweden.
The first is " The Pirate " pen drawing by Monro Orr, Great Britain.
The second is " An Amsterdam Orphan Girl " lead pencil and chalk drawing by N. Van Der Waay, Holland. 1911.
Found the book and others at the annual goodwill for our fire department. A wonderful book!

I found these in a yard sale and thought they looked very vintage. I cannot find any info on them so if anyone could elaborate I would appreciate very much. They're pretty heavy and made of some kind of something other than ceramic, maybe some kind of plastic. They measure 6 1/2" high x 5" wide.

This is "The Green Book of Birds of America" by Frank G. Ashbrook
Copyright 1931 by Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin
This is a pocket size paperback book, one of three in a series, which covers mostly perching birds and other woodlands birds; the others were The Red Book, covering diving birds, swimmers, and shore birds, and the Blue Book, which covered birds of prey such as Goatsuckers, Crows, and Jays.
It is 96 pages complete with printed descriptions of the birds, their habitats, and an accompanying color picture of the species. - It is 5" wide by 3 1/4" high

This is a pocket size paperback book published by the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association in 1921 - Fourth Edition / August 1921
It is 283 pages and full of drawn illustrations of bird houses, detailed plans for building bird-houses and nesting boxes, and also portrait illustrations of famous nature and animal environmentalists, most notably John James Audubon ( American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter)- but also including Henry W. Longfellow (American poet), The Duke of Wellington, Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish novelist), St. Francis of Assisi (patron Saint of Animals), Robert Burns (Scottish poet), Sir Edwin Landseer (English artist), Ulysees S. Grant (General and U.S. President), and Robert E. Lee (Confederate General) astride his horse "Traveler".

"Season to Taste - Spices.. and How to Use Them" edited by Crosby Gaige
Copyright 1938 by The American Spice Trade Association - a 47 page paperback complimentary copy distributed by Clover Farm Stores.
Includes descriptions of all cooking spices, where they originate from, and how to prepare and use them in a convenient recipe booklet.

Hello everyone, I know that the title of this book is common as well as "first editions" however this book does not have a year or date of any kind & the cover is unlike the others I've come across... Anyone know why this particular one is dateless? (A lot like my Saturday nights) lol
Look forward to hearing any input
Thanks!

Rob Lewis, an ordinary computer programmer with a wife and two kids, becomes something extraordinary one day after he wakes up and discovers he can read--and control--other people's minds. It's an ability most people dream of having, but for Rob it quickly destroys his life. There is a death, injuries, the threat of warping the lives of his children. Rob flees to New York where, homeless and destitute, he contacts Edwin Barbaross of the National Institutes of Health. Together they travel to Uzbekistan, where Rob will face both the source of his powers and his own inner demons.

What would you do, if you were Superman? Save the world, fight crime, have fun? Or is it true, that absolute power corrupts absolutely?

I luv old things but know little about books . This set is in perfect condition t signed to a friend from a friend in 1933 .im assuming they are much older . They are illustrated by Phiz and printed by oldhams press Ltd london . Im curious to know more and if rare . Thankyiu for interests .trish.

I am not certain what to call this piece other than a book? I have had it since 1977 when the movie came out. It is still in perfect condition and I believe the enclosed Record is also. The Record has never been removed from the book nor has it been played. Lots of pictures of John Travolta and the Bee Gees. Really a nice memento of the movie.

The book is 12 1/2 inches tall and 8 1/2" wide. Published by Night Fever Publishing Company.

This set of vintage globe bookends - Made in Italy in the 1960's. One of the bookends is made of wood and metal and has the signs of the zodiac printed on the center metal band. Inside the gold tone metal round grid is a small metal gold tone globe. Both the gold tone grid and gold globe spin on its axis. The other bookend depicts an old world globe that also spins on its axis. The bottom of the bookends have a brown felt lining and gold stamp that states, "MADE IN ITALY".

It's quite difficult for me to believe this book has survived so long with no damage except a worn hard cover front! It was published in 1849, 21 years before his death in 1870. No torn pages, just a slight yellowing.

Robert McCloskey is one of the most beloved American children’s authors of all time. This is a hard cover book and as you can see the front is a little faded. He also wrote the other book I posted, Make Way For Ducklings. He has won many awards for his children's books.

Can I get an amen!
Late 1800's bible scroll and flip book. The top part has a movable scroll to be moved to different pictures as a story is told and the bottom part has a flip page book. It was used by my great grandmother to teach bible lessons to children.

The little stamps on the bottom say 'Laquered. Do not polish' and 'Made in Taiwan'. I picked up these really heavy bookends the other day from Urban Ore in Berkeley. i really like them. you?

]]>Animalshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/136443-brass-ibex-heads-on-green-granite-blockshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/136443-brass-ibex-heads-on-green-granite-blocksDoors of Death and Life by Brenda W. Cloughhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/136432-doors-of-death-and-life-by-brenda-w-clo
Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:06:50 -0700

Title: Doors of Death and Life
Author: Brenda W. Clough
Publisher: Tor Books
Copyright: 2000
Edition: First printing May 2000

*Singed* by Brenda W. Clough

*********************************************

Because he possesses the pearl of immortality that once belonged to the hero Gilgamesh, astronaut Edwin Barbarossa survives a space shuttle disaster. Treated as a hero until he attempts to tell the truth about his "gift," Edwin soon becomes prey to those who would steal the secret of eternal life for themselves. His only hope for survival lies with his friend Rob Lewis, who has inherited Gilgamesh's superhuman powers and their attendant problems. Clough's sequel to How Like a God explores the ins and outs of mortals blessed or cursed with godlike abilities in an action-filled modern-world fantasy.

1897 Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping Rules & Regulations for the Construction and Classification of Vessels. Wood and Composite.

This edition was revised in December 1897, (notice the paper tag covering the old address with the new one. picture 2)
There are large fold out pages with illustrations of ship building requirements and tables.
This was another find in the garage I cleaned out for the antiques dealer. Such an interesting piece of maritime history.

She also signed this early photo of her and Jack Green at the opry,around 1963. She and Jack sang together on many occasions. I Love this Big Book of Photos of all the Early Stars of the Grand ole Opry and the many interesting stories about all of them !

Paintings of flowers by famous painter Georgia O'Keefe. Her imagination in these paintings matches that of Van Gogh in similar paintings of flowers that this famous artist created. Many of the paintings in this book are reproduced on the right hand pages, with the facing left pages left blank. This has the effect of accentuating the vividness of all the colors. Smaller paintings are reproduced on two facing pages, while some of the largest ones take up the whole two-page spread. Occasionally two complimentary or similar paintings would also be reproduced facing each other. Aside from the very small painting numbers on some of the white pages, there are no textual "interruptions". The really large 16.1" x 13.6" format of this book is ideally suited for representing Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings.

Hi all,
Lovely Art Deco bright green bookends.
About 6" high & each weighing over a 1kg
Ones higher than the other, does anyone know if that's common in pairs of bookends?
They're also extremely heavy, over 1kg each!

Thank you TC (again:) & Upstate for helping ID these for me, I'd never have traced them without you.

Title: The Realm of Prester John
Author: Robert Silverberg
Copyright: 1972
Edition: First edition 1972

*Signed by Robert Silverberg

The famous science fiction writer pieces together the life history of the myth of Prester John, the Christian potentate of the East, Emperor of Ethiopia...a romantic and fabulous tale. 'As exotic and complex as a mosaic in a Coptic chapel'.

Twenty Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated by Ernest W. Longfellow, Henry's son. This is the revised edition from 1884, the original was written in 1882. One of the poems I love.
______________________________________________
It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintry sea;
And the skipper had taken his little daughter,
To bear him company...............................

Hello CW!
I want too share this vintage children book.
I had the collection of these books when I was a kid.
Time ago I found this volume (my favourite) in a garage sale.
Has wonderful stories, poems and tales of very famous Spanish authors and exercises to practice the Spanish language.
Printed in Spain in 1972.
With love,
Virginia

Little Brother and Little Sister - The Brothers Grimm - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham - First Edition -1917. I LOVE Arthur Rackham's work! i was excited to find this book at a reasonable price in a little bookstore in Point Reyes Station last week. it has more than 10 tipped in plates and lots of very cool black/white illustrations as well.

for some reason, i can't get one of my favorite illustrations to load here. ??

I think that these are made of weighted pot metal w/ silver gilding. I've had them for a very long time. I bought them in an antique store in Portsmouth, NH when i was around 20. I think that they are very beautiful. Each one has two number '501' printed on them. Does anyone know who made these and when? i'm assuming they are from around 1880-90.

This is a Recipe Booklet from a series called the "Encyclopedia of Cooking"
Booklet #11 - "250 Ways to Serve Fresh Vegetables"
It was published in 1950 by Consolidated Book Publishers, Chicago, Ill.
Edited by Ruth Berolzheimer, Director of the Culinary Arts Institute
Original copyrights 1940 and 1949 by Book Production Industries, Inc.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - paperback booklet / 48 pages / illustrated

I had never run into this before: a 1911 1st edition book by Harold Bell Wright titled "The Winning of Barbara North" in what was an option when it was first published... a leather dust cover!

The book is not particularly rare ~ Mr. Wright was (and STILL is) actually one of the best-selling authors of all time (when sales are compared to the US population in his day). This is considered to be one of his better titles; the story of the loves of Ms. North in turn-of-the-century Imperial Valley California, but sold well over a million copies the first year. After some research, I found a website that spoke of the leather d/j-option on the first edition book. But so far I have not turned up another example of one on the market. Inside the front board pocket is a paper label that shows the cover costing an extra 70 cents! Considering that you could get a steak at Delmonico's for less than that kinda puts the cost in perspective....

And best of all, the book almost looks like it was picked up at the bookstore yesterday! Sweet~

I have meant to read this book for several years but just haven't gotten around to it. The first picture is of General John Pershing, the book has nice illustrations. It is in almost perfect condition with no tears or folded corners. The binding is also in great shape. Published by The National Historical Publishing Association.

An important part of my camera collecting is research and getting access to important ephemera (primary source material). When I first started collecting, things we take for granted today such as eBay and Google books did not exist. Research was a difficult and slow process. And is often the case, rare and significant literature was in poor condition and inaccessible. Today given the Internet’s broad reach and advanced search tools, research is much easier but it’s still a challenge to dig up obscure, important information.

Back in 2002, finding key ephemera was not easy. At that time, a close friend and collector gave me a challenge. He knew I was in IT (after all, that’s my profession) and asked if it was possible to make a digital restoration of a camera’s ‘hand-book’ cover. He owned the camera (an amazingly rare Anthony Lilliput) and its original hand-book (rarer yet). The cover was in tatters and the intent was to reproduce the hand-book before the entire thing disintegrated.

As background, the Lilliput detective camera (patented 1889) is historically significant, rare and a beautiful piece of work. It was also made at a time when George Eastman introduced his landmark Kodak roll film camera. The Lilliput used plates and simply couldn’t compete with roll film convenience. As a result, only a few are known. The camera itself is disguised in a thick leather case. Unfortunately, the leather case (if found) is typically in dismal, un-repairable condition. (FWIW, I’m not found of box cameras, but if a really great example in original condition appeared, I would consider buying it.)

The notion of doing a digital restoration was a new idea to us back then and I agreed to give it a try. The effort took me about 8 hours and we were thrilled with the result. Today’s advanced photo-editing software would make a similar project much easier. Yet what was exciting is that this was completed without having to touch the original paper once it was scanned and a life-sized high-resolution TIF image e-mailed to me. Six (or so) reproductions of the hand-book were made and I still have mine.

Published by E.H.Butler publishing company in 1864. I dearly love all the old Irish melodies. All my ancestors are Irish and my Grandmother used to sing the Irish Melodies to me when I was a child. This book is in wonderful condition with no torn pages and a good binding. There are 149 songs in it.

I BELIEVE THIS TO BE A RARE SIGNED COPY OF RUDEL'S BOOK. HE WROTE A PERSONAL SENTIMENT TO AN ADMIRER IN 1978. THERE ARE SEVERAL PICTURES, ONE, SHOWING RUDEL RECIEVING THE KNIGHT'S CROSS, GERMANY'S HIGHEST MILITARY DECORATION, FROM ADOLF HITLER. INSIDE THE PAGES WERE TWO COPIES OF HIS OBITUARY, CLIPPED FROM NEWSPAPERS. BOOK IS IN SPANISH, PUBLISHED IN SPAIN. ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH AVIATION HISTORY KNOWS HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY DECORATED PILOT'S EVER. JACKET IS IN FAIR CONDITION, HARDCOVER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. I FOUND THIS BOOK IN BUENOS ARIES, ARGENTINA.....WHERE RUDEL DID LIVE FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

I posted my little golden book collection a few months ago when I didn't have adequate shelving yet I had a little less than 1100 . Since then, my goal is to obtain an example of each title published (not necessarily first editions, but I'll take them if I can) as inexpensively as possible. The ones I lacked were some of the harder to find titles. I now have just over 1200 unique titles or variants (different cover for example) and just about 100 to go to fulfill my goal. I'm not worried so much about getting current titles printed in the past two decades. They make for a nice decorative element and a great source of entertainment for my children and visiting children.

These are only the shelves with the standard size books.. I also have some other formats such as big Goldens, little littles, first littles, shape books, records, and non-book merchandise like games, plush animals, handkerchiefs, lunch box and a few other items. I have nowhere near everything made. I just enjoy the ways one can incorporate their collection into living area without being intrusive or cluttered and wished to share my way of doing so.

I started a (not so active) blog at littlegoldenmemories.blogspot.com. On the web (not mobile) version there is a link on the right to my collection list as well as the titles I'm still missing. I plan to create a spreadsheet for other collectors for download that will help guide them when building their own collections. I am seeking permission from the author of the identification guides I'm using as reference before I do.

This is a genuine leather book cover brought to the U.S. from Germany
Front cover measurement: about 6 3/4" (17.3cm) by 9" (22.8cm)
Color is a dark brown (pic 1 & 4 lightened to show detail) / beige silk lining
No makers information (believe made in Italy) - circa estimate 1950's
Leather strap bind stitch on border - has some tearing to lower right bind

This miniature book was published in 1935 by Engel.van Wiseman Book Cooperation. The outside is very colorful but the pictures inside are black and white. This book isn't as firm as I would like it to be but it's still a nice little item.

Human history is a seemingly endless succession of bloody conflicts and devastating turmoil. Yet, inexplicably, in the light of astonishing intellectual and technological advancement, Man's progress has been halted in one crucial area; he still indulges the primitive beast within and makes war upon his neighbors.

As a result of seven years of intense research, William Bramley has uncovered the sinister thread that links humanity's darkest events -- from the wars of the ancient pharaohs to the assassination of JFK. In this remarkable, shocking and absolutely compelling work, Bramley presents disturbing evidence of an alien presence on Earth -- extraterrestrial visitors who have conspired to dominate Humankind through violence and chaos since the beginning of time...a conspiracy which continues to this very day.

This is a Black Americana Scrapbook. It has many comic style images. I have no idea where these images came from or what they are. If anyone knows about these comic style images please tell me about them. If anyone has any thoughts or ideas feel free to comment. Thanks

My kids and Grand kids pooled their money and bought me these for my birthday for my birthday one year. I dearly love, love, love them. I have never taken the stickers off of them. Of course the kids blacked out the price. LOL! I did look them up on Google and I have no idea how they came up with that much money. I have a sneaky feeling hubby helped!

This is a circa late 1930's - early 1940's "Virginia Dare" Wine Recipes and Cookbook from Garrett Wines, Brooklyn, NY. -- 8 page fold-out booklet
** Garrett Wines was founded in 1835 in North Carolina. Around 1920 it moved to Brooklyn and the minute it arrived, New York State went dry and prohibition forced Virginia Dare to reconsider its business model. They managed to survive and even prosper during the prohibition years by continuing to make wine, but they took out the alcohol and did their best to retain the wine's flavor. The extracted alcohol was used to make pure fruit and vegetable flavors ranging from vanilla to onion. In this way the plant continued to turn out over 15 million quart bottles of Virginia Dare non-alcoholic "wine" a year, as well as 20,000,000 bottles of flavoring extract. In an added effort to survive the prohibition era, they began selling concentrated grapes with instructions for making wine at home, which was legal. After the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the company again began making wines and by 1941 they were producing champagnes as well as its regular wines. By 1945 the company held 10,000 acres of vineyards in New York, No. Carolina, and California. In 1965 the company's wine business was purchased by Constellation Brands, however, the flavoring extract side of the business continues to operate out of Brooklyn to this day.

Hello there! I'm sorting through the thousands of books I inherited from the ancestral library. I feel that I have done a decent job identifying these literary gems edition & printing numbers by researching via Abe Books and other sources, but there are a small handful of books that I believe are first editions but I was hoping that a wiser soul than mine could verify that and/or correct me with the correct information...Thank you!!

Info from the Book:
"New edition with additions illustrated with photogravure plates from works of art"
I realize it says new edition, but I do not understand if its a new edition to this particular writing, or a new edition showing off Michelangelo's Art.

Hello there! I'm sorting through the thousands of books I inherited from the ancestral library. I feel that I have done a decent job identifying these literary gems edition & printing numbers by researching via Abe Books and other sources, but there are a small handful of books that I believe are first editions but I was hoping that a wiser soul than mine could verify that and/or correct me with the correct information...Thank you!!

Hello there! I'm sorting through the thousands of books I inherited from the ancestral library. I feel that I have done a decent job identifying these literary gems edition & printing numbers by researching via Abe Books and other sources, but there are a small handful of books that I believe are first editions but I was hoping that a wiser soul than mine could verify that and/or correct me with the correct information...Thank you!!

Info from the Book:
"Newly translated by..."
New York
Copyright 1958 by Philosophical Library
Printed in the United States of America

Hello there! I'm sorting through the thousands of books I inherited from the ancestral library. I feel that I have done a decent job identifying these literary gems edition & printing numbers by researching via Abe Books and other sources, but there are a small handful of books that I believe are first editions but I was hoping that a wiser soul than mine could verify that and/or correct me with the correct information...Thank you!!

Hello there! I'm sorting through the thousands of books I inherited from the ancestral library. I feel that I have done a decent job identifying these literary gems edition & printing numbers by researching via Abe Books and other sources, but there are a small handful of books that I believe are first editions but I was hoping that a wiser soul than mine could verify that and/or correct me with the correct information...Thank you!!

Hello there! I'm sorting through the thousands of books I inherited from the ancestral library. I feel that I have done a decent job identifying these literary gems edition & printing numbers by researching via Abe Books and other sources, but there are a small handful of books that I believe are first editions but I was hoping that a wiser soul than mine could verify that and/or correct me with the correct information...Thank you!!

Info from the Book:
New York
Dodd, Mead, & Company
Printed in USA
Copyright 1902
Copyright 1906

We are a clearing our house.. When I was at my stack of books in all subject antique jewelry, I actually had to laugh. Just like my jewelry collection is this collection of books about run out of control. But ... of course very interesting and good to advise and very instructive.
The two books that I have on a separate photograph I most learned and are therefore highly recommended. If you have questions you know to find me !!

This is a Recipe Booklet from a series called the "Encyclopedia of Cooking"
Booklet #1 - "500 Tasty Snacks" - Ideas for Entertaining
It was published in 1953 by Consolidated Book Publishers, Chicago, Ill.
Edited by Ruth Berolzheimer, Director of the Culinary Arts Institute
Original copyrights 1940 and 1949 by Book Production Industries, Inc.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - paperback booklet / 48 pages / illustrated

Published in 1903 the book tells the entire history of the Battle of Bennington. The Battle of Bennington was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, part of the Saratoga campaign, that took place on August 16, 1777. Author David Beach wrote this book on the 126th anniversary of the battle in 1903. Not everyone likes reading about American history, but if you are someone who enjoys it you should read this book. I got this book at a yard sale when I was about 25 years old. Tried to read it but it wasn't interesting to me then. Got it out about 20 years later and loved reading it, so very interesting.

I have always loved the older children's books! Robert McCloskey wrote eight children's books, he not only wrote them but did all the drawings also. This Duckling book was published in 1941. I can't remember what they are called but he won some awards for children's books.

1966 - "How To Become A Professional Engineer" by John D. Constance
- Copyrighted and published in 1958 & 1966 by the McGraw-Hill Book Co.
- Second Edition - Professional Engineering training, registration, laws, examinations, and acquiring engineering licenses. - TEXTBOOK
Hardcover with dust jacket /294 pages / illustrated with drawings

1942 - "Mathematics for the Aviation Trades" by James Naidich, the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the Manhattan High School of Aviation Trades. - Copyrighted and published in 1942 by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, this book was written for students in trade and technical schools who intended to become aviation mechanics. - Written in a textbook form, the book has cloth-covered hard board covers, contains 267 pages, and is illustrated with drawings and photographs. - TEXTBOOK

During my recent trip to Germany, my mom gave me my great-grandmother's songbook. It has a leather cover and is in pretty good shape for its age. The front has a dedication from my grandmother's sister. It was a Christmas present in 1888.

I purchased a wonderful book yesterday at the local Flea. 'Hope's Costumes of the Ancients'. I've done some research but now am a bit confused. The book inside clearly states Second Edition 1809, and it has 200 engravings. My research showed the first printing was in 1809 with 200 engravings. The second was apparently in 1812 with 300 engravings. I don't understand why it says 'Second Edition' but only has 200 engravings. Can anyone please possibly tell me anything about what I have here?

These books are from the 1950's. The second book has a little bit of tears in 2 of the pages where you see the tape. I showed these books to my grown kids and they had no idea who they were. Unfortunately I remember them. When I was 2 years old my Mom told me I would cry if I missed the Howdy Doody show!

This is a 1932 printing of the "Ceresota Household Hints - Series 2" recipe and cooking booklet. - Paperback / 32 pages / illustrated
** Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company was an American flour milling company that operated about 25% of the mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - Northwestern and their new Ceresota flour brand name were established in 1891 and produced flour for the half century between 1891 and 1953. Ceresota is now a brand name of The Uhlmann Company and American Home Foods.

This set of bookends are also from 1925, they feature harlequin girls sitting with legs crossed on white alabaster bases with ivorine faces and hands. I have never seen a blue set of Hirsch figures, so I bought them, they are usually red, ivory, or gold. The right hands on this set are off to the side instead of together in front.

They are in relatively good condition, but the paint on the eyes and lips on the faces of each has worn or flaked off over the years, which is not unusual. One of the bases has a small fissure in the alabaster. They are 4.75" wide, 5.50" in height, and 3" in depth.

My family is absolutely of no religion, but my father was brought up in a Methodist household.

The first New Testament here was issued to him by his local church when he joined the Australian Army during WW2.
Pristine, in it's box, it's probably only been opened by we kids when we sorted Dad's stuff.

It's inscription reads:
"Presented to Harry Lang from the Mentone Methodist Church"
and then a part of a Proverb.

The older New Testament is much more interesting and worn.

It was issued to my grandfather when he enlisted for WW1, and apparently he carried it all through the Western Front where he served during the latter part of the Great war.

The original inscription reads:
"Arthur C. Lang With love from Mother 8/7/17"

The 2nd inscription reads:
"Harry Lang with love from Dad 9th June 1942"

I believe Dad carried this with him when he served in New Guinea.

Of no value except to the family I know, but the places that little book has been!......

I'm a big fan of Sleeping Beauty. All the books of my collection were published by Hachette in France when the Disney classic was first released. It is interesting to compare the cover of the American market with that of the French market which is slightly different. The contents are nearly the same. The second photo shows the very rare 1958 French edition of Sleeping Beauty which was given a deluxe treatment with 58 pages (it is a large book which measures 32 cm x 25 cm). I am almost certain that NO other copy has survived. The 3rd picture shows three small books which are the French translations of the Little Golden books published at the same time in the U.S. The 4th picture shows a soft cover edition of what I believe to be the French equivalent of the Dell comic book published in the US (I never browsed a copy). I also own the beautiful Sleeping Beauty book published in the Sketchbook series, as well as Pierre Lambert's gorgeous La Belle au Bois Dormant recently published in France which is a gorgeous coffee table size book not to be missed by Sleeping Beauty fans.

This set of bookends are from 1925, they feature harlequin girls sitting with legs crossed on green onyx bases with ivorine faces and hands. I also have a clock that matches these girls, except the girl on the clock does not have the skull cap.

They are 7.25" tall, 5" in width, and 3.50" in depth. They are in excellent condition, little or no chipping on their bases. The ivorine faces are a little dark with age. I love the green onyx.

I took these pictures a few years ago with an old camera. The book is in excellent condition but that old camera made the colors rather strange looking.

Inside the front cover is a song with music notes and words, inside the back cover is a different song. it really is a great old children's book! It has wonderful pictures on every page!

]]>Books / Childrens Bookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/130382-the-german-sunbonnet-babies-book-publishttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/130382-the-german-sunbonnet-babies-book-publisThe Story Of The Three Bears, Published In 1921http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/130359-the-story-of-the-three-bears-published
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Many don't know in 1831, as it is on this one, the book was called The Story of The Three Bears.

It had about the same story line as it does today with 2 exceptions. The story was about just three regular Bears and an Old Lady. It wasn't until the very early 20th century that it was changed to Goldilocks and the three bears were named mamma, papa and baby bear.

The title was also changed at a little later date to Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This book is in excellent condition. Hard to imagine that condition after 93 years.

I can't read German but the illustrations were, shall we say "interesting".

Printed in 1976, red fabric Hardcover with a dust cover. The book is about 9 in x 12 in, the page numbers at the top of the pages don't seem to correspond to any proper numbering system. Some pages are single digits others are triple digits.

If anyone reads German I was wondering what sort of book it is, what it's about. It's filled with these kinds of small illustrations. All captions & text are in German. There is only about 4 pages of actual text at the end of the book.

I don't know how to confirm but read some ware the Johnny & Billy book may be worth $500. I know nothing about collecting books, I just look mainly for 100 years or more and now hope for 1st ED, wishing signed. I see people using their phones to verify the books they collect but can't figure out what's being verified. Book collectors please let me in on your secret's.

This bookend was originally designed, and sculpted by a well-known Ukrainian Artist, Bruno Zach. It was produced by the JB Hirsch Foundry. Depicted is male warrior in a commanding stance, positioned securely on black onyx intact sets are an extreme rarity. This one is missing a spear point.

Hirsch produced this design in two varieties. This is one of the rarest mounted on a black onyx base with an Ivorine face and enamel over a metal body. This one is missing a spear point. The other ones are , monochrome; all silver, the finish is plated silver, over a metal casting, the base though is shade darker like an old used pinball silver (see them in my collection).

This bookend is 6.5" Tall, 5.5" Long, 3.25" in Depth.

Zack became famous for his Art Deco figures of dancing women. The talented sculptor reflected the typical Art Deco characteristics on his sculptures.

I have started collecting old books. This is what got me started. I look for books from the 1900 back. My oldest for now being 1860 The Marble Faun By Nathaniel Hawthorne. A. L .Burt, Publisher. I really don't know how to collect them or what to do with them later. Please if you can give me some pointers on book collecting please do so. For now it's anything before 1900 and First Editions only I learned later.

I bought my first Canadian medal back in the 1970’s from a dealer friend who told me that he had a Wisconsin medal with a badger on top. What he thought was a badger was really a beaver. Since then my interest in Canadian “Welcome Home Medals” has been constant. Several years ago out of curiosity I sent a full color scan of my Canadian medals to a “well known” medals dealer in Canada to see if there was any interest in such medals. His offer was only a fraction of the gold value. As a result I concluded that there was no Canadian market for these medals. Recently while in Canada I visited several antique and collectible stores and asked about this type of medals. Every one I asked knew about these medals but rarely ever sees them. There is a great book about these medals by George Brown, now out of print. While in Victoria we stopped a local book store to see if they had any such book. The friendly staff could not find any in their computerized inventory. When we got home I found the book to listed on Amazon by the same Victoria book dealer!

I usually don't by old books, but this was in the case at GW and wasn't too expensive. This is where they put most everything that has some value or at least they think so. The Life/History of Napoleon is written by Richard Henry Horne in this revised edition in 1876. The original was in two volumes but this has been combined with additions and 270 illustrations by Raffert and Horace Vernet. It's in fairly good condition, but the front cover is coming away from the spine a bit inside. There is a small label for George Mars Bookseller 239 5th Ave. McKeesport PA. in the upper left corner. The interior cover pages are a dark green flocked suede like paper. The color comes off on your fingers if handled too much which I found out after running my fingers over it to feel the texture. The first few pages have finger prints from these pages. It does erase with a bit of art gum though. It has a nice embossed cloth cover with a bit of gold, green and maroon in the details. The back is plain and the spine is nicely decorated. I really don't know if it worth anything but it is in pretty good condition for being 138 years old. -Mike-

Richard Henry Horne
From Wikipedia

Richard Hengist Horne (born Richard Henry Horne) (31 December 1802 – 13 March 1884) was and English poet and critic most famous for his poem Orion. Horne became a journalist, and from 1836 to 1837 edited the Monthly Repository. In 1837 he published two tragedies, Cosmo de' Medici and The Death of Marlowe. Another drama in blank verse, Gregory VII, appeared in 1840, and in 1841 a History of Napoleon in prose.
About the end of 1840 Horne was given employment as a sub-commissioner in connection with the royal commission on the employment of children in mines and manufactures. This commission finished its labours at the beginning of 1843, and in the same year Horne published his epic poem, Orion, which appeared in 1843. It was published originally at the price of one farthing, was widely read; three editions were published at that price, and three more at increased prices before the end of the year. In the next year he set forth a volume of critical essays called A New Spirit of life Age, in which he was assisted by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with whom, from 1839 to her marriage in 1845, he conducted a voluminous correspondence.
In December 1849 Horne's acquaintance Charles Dickens gave him a position as a sub-editor on his new weekly magazine Household Words at a salary of 'five guineas a week'
In June 1852 Horne migrated to Australia, traveling as a passenger on the same ship as William Howitt and arriving in Melbourne in September. With assistance from Captain Archibald Chisholm, husband of Caroline Chisholm a contributor to Household Words, he was given a position as commander of a gold escort. It was later reported that on the first trip of the escort under Horne's command they returned to Melbourne with 'two tonnes weight of gold. The escort was robbed in 1853 and Horne wrote to The Argus with his recollections of George Melville, the bushranger convicted of the crime and hanged.
In 1860 Horne was again unemployed. In 1869, "dissatisfied with the failure of the Victorian government to fulfil what he conceived to be its obligations to him", he returned to England. A later memoria of Horne notes that after his return from Australia he settled in 'poor quarters in Marylebone' and 'ill at ease in London' his health suffered. Horne received a Civil List pension of £50 a year in 1874, which was increased to £100 in 1880, and died at Margate on 13 March 1884, leaving behind him much unpublished work.

Please bare with this post. I will be uploading posts from my phone until I receive my new laptop cord. I have 3 Jack Russell Terriers, which one decided to mistaken my computer cord for one of their chew toys while I was at work. Anyhow, this fine collection of literature was put to film in 1975 by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, & many others. But just to say as a hypothesis, =^/
If this novel had never made itself on the big screen. Every bush, twig, shadow, or fin in the bathtub or open water would be what it is …instead of a human flesh tearing, hungry for human blood of the sea fish, we all know of as "JAWS". =^/

This book belongs to the series called Monografías de Arte Estrella (Estrella –Star- Art Monographics), a collection of Art books first published by Tipografía Artística (C/ Cervantes, 28, Madrid) in 1919. This book in particular is focused on the Spanish painter Eduardo Rosales, one of the most important ones in 19th Century Spain.

The collections consisted of at least 9 volumes published between 1919 and 1923, and all of them are monographics on Spanish artists: the painters Juan Pantoja de la Cruz (1553-1608), Eduardo Rosales (1936-1863), Santiago Rusiñol (1961-1931), Ramón Casas (1886-1932), Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor (1875-1960), Federico Beltrán Masses (1885-1949) and the sculptors Enrique Casanovas (1882-1948) and José Clará (1878-1958). The first book appeared in 1919 and then two new volume were published every year.

Of course, the jacket is wonderful, displaying different motifs on both the cover and the back, but once you open the book you can see the title page is different for each painter, and it always shows a basket and flowers motif. I love the Art Deco look of the book, even if the original cover design comes from 1919 (but now we all know that Arte Déco didn’t started in 1925…).

The edition is a good one. The paper the book is published in is excellent, more suitable for artistic printing than mere books. One can feel that this was no ordinary printing… My guess is that they were made using an older printing technique, something to give the books that arty thing. And finally, the pictures with the artist’s works were first printed on a good quality papel using fotogravure, and then glued on its page, where a simpe frame and the name of the work were already printed.

We’ve got other books and as find I am able to find them I’ll do an extra post displaying the different designs for the different title pages.

4 1/2 inches tall, 2 3/4 inches closed 4 3/4 inches open says made in France. Small clock that looks like a pair of books when it is closed. Son loves books and watches. We found this at an estate sale. Best of both worlds, but don't really know anything about it.

Finnish bookends where the lion looks like the one from the Finnish coat of arms. I think, Taidetakomo Hakkarainen was a blacksmith factory (Taidetakomo is Finnish for "Artistic Forge") that produced Art Nouveau Finnish antiques. The designer was Anti Hakkarinen, 1920-1930.

The label on these says Unconditionally Guaranteed Star Creations Et REG. PAT. Another sticker says JAPAN. These are ceramic or porcelain bookends... they aren't heavy enough to be bookends though. They remind me of a French couple. I don't think that they are valuable or anything but I'm sure they are vintage. My grandson wants them. lol
Anyway, I was hoping one of you have run across something similar. I would like to have documentation on what they are for him when he grows up and gets them from me. He's six so he has a ways to go. Any ideas? Has anyone even seen this label? I appreciate your thoughts and time.

I didn't find much yesterday but this was sitting all by itself on one of the empty shelves in the book section at GW. "A Thousand Days of Magic" Dressing Jackie Kennedy for The White House by Oleg Cassini (Reissue Edition). I picked it up and started thumbing through it. Even though I was only eight or nine years old at the time it all seemed so familiar. This was probably my first exposure as to what beauty, grace and elegance was all about. Yes, there was something "magical" about that time. It's not only written as a fashion book, but it's loaded with history and insight from Mr. Cassini's point of view. A nice coffee table book, 9" by 11" and 304 pages. Full of great historical photos and Mr. Cassini's beautiful design drawings. -Mike-

"A Thousand Days of Magic" (Reissue Edition)
September 15, 1995
Dressing Jackie Kennedy for The White House
By Oleg Cassini
Publisher Rizzoli
Courtesy Amazon.com
A gorgeously revised edition of this fashion favorite book, which combines Cassini’s memoirs of working closely with Jacqueline Kennedy during her brief White House years, his fashion philosophies and ideas, and the iconography of the early 1960s style and energy of the Kennedy years. Jacqueline Kennedy’s selection of Oleg Cassini to design her personal wardrobe as First Lady was not only fashion history, but political history as well. As the creator of the "Jackie look," Cassini made the First Lady one of the best-dressed women in the world and a glamorous icon of the Kennedy era. During the 1000 days of the Kennedy administration, Cassini designed over 300 outfits for Jackie Kennedy—coats, dresses, evening gowns, suits, and day wear—and coordinated every aspect of her wardrobe, from shoes and hats to gloves and handbags. In this book, Cassini offers a fascinating and comprehensive view of his role as Jackie’s personal couturier, a position that allowed him unprecedented access to both Jackie and John Kennedy as a designer and a trusted friend. From the details of his first meetings with the First Lady to his thoughts on Jackie’s clothes and their legacy, Cassini’s recollections are far-ranging and informative. Also included are Cassini's original sketches accompanied by 200 color and black-and-white photographs of the First Lady as she tours India, France, England, and Italy, shows off the White House, and hosts state dinners and family gatherings. Public moments as well as private ones capture the great elegance and charm of one of the most admired and emulated women in the world.

The larger album was found in an antique barn.When purchased it was perfect. Unfortunately it has cracked due to age and want to know if anyone has any ideas how to restore it. I loved the sweet faces on the people and the detail of the album. It was purchased about 50 years ago. The smaller one is in perfect condition with notes of congratulations to my parents anniversary. It was a gift of the antique dealer to them in 1975.

I found this lovely old book "Progressive Intellectual Arithmetic". In it, are multiple handwritten notes including a poem by Byron Vanderbilt in Niles, Cayuga County, NY. The book was passed on to other students because their names and dates are also added on various pages.
On front inside page, handwritten in pencil, is "Byron Vanderbilt Book, Niles, May 27th, '66" -(1866).
On the same page is a poem that goes something like this:
"With this you see remember me.
Though absent from your sight.
And I will do the same for you.
With pleasure and delight.
Henry (?)"

This is a 1901 gradeschool World Geography textbook titled "National Advanced Geography" by Jacques W. Redway and Russell Hinman.
Copyright and published in 1898, 1901 by American Book Company
The frontpiece has the student's name and Sept., 2, 1902 handwritten in pencil along with 'Room 8 - Miss Lilla Fadd - teacher' (est. 2nd/3rd grade)
* Also includes one of the childs lessons dated Jan. 1903 of a map of South America with the countries watercolored and mountain ranges, rivers, and major cities drawn in with pencil - presumably done by the pupil. - (the school was located in Woodstock, Illinois)
The book is 9 5/8" by 12 3/8" - it is a hardcover book, spine cover is gone, both covers have detached, and binding is deteriorating although still bound. It is illustrated with over a hundred etchings, both large and small, of not only geography, but peoples and industries, farming, buildings and monuments, etc., at the turn of the century with colored maps throughout its 160 main pages, an additional section of 24 colored full-page size World Maps, and a section of 8 pages at the end related to the State of Illinois in general.

Oh boy, this was a budget buster but I simply could not leave it behind ! It's a bookend actually and made by the J.B. Hirsch Foundry around 1932. It's made of spelter or French bronze which is zinc and a few other metals in the formula. Very heavy stuff !! It's been cold painted to look like bronze. His face is Ivorine which is celluloid, an early form of plastic. Real ivory had been banned by the early 1930's. It would have been one of a pair there is also a female pirate bookend. There appears to be several finishes and styles. Some are painted in colors and others have silver chests and bronze figures or marble bases and just the figure. This one is all bronze color and may have had a felt on the bottom which is gone . The interior of the chest is lined with cedar. I didn't realize it was a box until the clerk at GW took it out of the case. It was incredibly heavy at least five pounds and measuring 6 1/2" tall x 5 1/2" long x 3 1/2 wide . It had "as is" written on it because one of the hinge pins was missing and being held together by a twisted paper clip. I put a brass nail in it and clipped it to size when I got home. The other side has it's thin tiny loop broken on the lid so a pin can no longer hold it in place. So one side is fine and the other is broken. A great find even with the small amount of damage. Now I have to find the other one so I can have a pair ! -Mike-

J.B. Hirsch Company

The JB Hirsch story begins in 1907 with the New York Art Bronze Works in Manhattan’s lower east side. The founder of the company, Romanian metalsmith, Joseph B. Hirsch, began importing pieces directly from French foundries. Around that period, foundries with close ties to the talented artists and sculptors of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, began producing their now famous works in “French Bronze.” Some of the finest talent throughout Europe trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, exhibiting their works at the Salon de Artistes and other great Salons in Paris, the center of the art world.
Between the wars, during the 1920s and 1930s, an entirely new modern style of decorative art emerged, using a combination of bronze and ivory. With the ban of ivory in the early 1930s, ivorine or celluloid (predecessor of plastic) was used in its place. The ivory or ivorine representing exposed flesh and the bronze or spelter representing clothing. The combination of “French Bronze” (spelter) and ivory or ivorine were fully exploited during the Deco period using events of discovery (opening of King Tut’s Tomb in the 1920s), celebrities, athletes (1936 Olympics), children, the fashions and costumes of the period by Erte and Gerdago, and dancers from the Ballet Russe,
After World War I, when the French occupation closed one of Hirsch’s primary suppliers, he went to Paris and purchased that company’s molds to begin his own casting foundry. With the acquisitions of additional molds from French, German and Italian foundries, Hirsch was able to put together the finest and rarest collection of Beaux Arts, Nouveau and Deco sculptural molds in the world.
During World War II, the French foundries were again prohibited from using metal for statues. To prevent the valuable sculptural art from being destroyed by marauding armies, the molds were broken up, the pieces scattered, buried under factory floors, and hidden in house cellars. Most French foundries remained closed after World War II, and the molds remained hidden.
In 1948, J.B. Hirsch’s son, Abraham, heard of their existence, and planned “archaeological expeditions” to France to search for the buried mold fragments. Between 1948 and 1963 Abraham Hirsch was able to piece together over 200 objects and acquire the molds from 15 “French Bronze” foundries. Abraham’s son, Stanley was put in charge of reassembling exhumed molds that arrived in pieces. After attending a symposium on the Beaux Arts by the NY Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Stanley Hirsch discovered he was in possession of the original molds from which the displayed pieces were cast. Putting together the puzzle of scrambled parts is still an ongoing process.
Today, JB Hirsch bookends -- romantic, elaborate, and elegantly designed -- are the most sought after of all bookend manufacturers. They are usually figural pieces cast in pure spelter (“French bronze”) and usually reflect the chryselephantine movement, displaying ivorine (celluloid) faces, hands and other parts. In some cases, the parts are painted to resemble ivorine.

This Bible is 9/111/2/by3". It is Old and New Testement with the Apocrypha. It has canne's marginal notes and references. An index, Alphabetical names in the old and new testements with their signification, table of scripture weights and measure and coins. Concordance, the Psalms of David in metre. It has pictures in it and the pages's for marriage, births and deaths in the family. There already have the family names in and the dates from the 1850's. This is A Philadelphia Jesper Harding Bible from 1854

This is a grammar textbook titled "Higher English" by J.N. Patrick, A.M.
- for High Schools and Academies / student's name penciled inside cover
Copyrighted in 1896 by J.N. Patrick and in 1897 by W.B. Becktold
Published 1897 by Becktold Printing and Book Mfg. Co., St. Louis, MO.
Hardcover / 192 pages / no illustrations / English grammar lessons

This is an elementary textbook titled "White' First Book of Arithmetic" - For Pupils by Emerson E. White, M.A., LL.D. - (assumed 1st / 2nd grade level)
Copyrighted 1890 by Van Antwerp, Bragg, and Company
Published 1890 by American Book Co. - New York ~ Cincinnati ~ Chicago
Hardcover / 168 pages / illustrated with numerous etchings, large & small
** Note the two different scales in use in the store illustration and the milk delivery from a horse-drawn cart directly from milk can into the ladies' milk pitcher in the last illustration.

This is a reader textbook titled "A Primer to American Literature" by Charles F. Richardson. - penciled on cover is student's name and B.H.S.
Copyrighted 1878 and 1883 by Charles F. Richardson
Published 1894 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company - Boston
Hardcover / 117 pages / with twelve portraits of American authors

This bookend, according to the Collector's Encyclopedia of Bookends, by Louis Kuritzky and Charles De Costa, is called Gladiator, page 226, plate 1524, his rarity is a #5. Now after the World Cup Futbol Competition in Brasil, he looks more like a soccer player to me, than a Gladiator.

He is in excellent condition and stands 7.25 inches in height 6.75 inches in length, and 3 inches in depth. The alabaster base had a few fleabites, but nothing major.

This is a pocket-size Professional Bartender's Guide from the 1950's
Printed in the U.S.A. for the House of Schenley (Canadian Schenley, Ltd.)
Full of cocktail recipes and a description of bar glassware on the last page.
It is shirtpocket size 2 3/4" by 4 3/4" and 48 pages - circa late 1950's

Since earliest times, humanity has pondered the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe, life...and the afterlife. Was there somewhere on Earth where, after death, mortal man could join the immortal Gods? Where was this place? By whom was it established? And does it still exist today?

After years of painstaking research -- combining recent archaeological discoveries with ancient texts and artifacts -- noted scholar Zecharia Sitchin has identified the legendary Land of the Gods...and provided astounding new revelations about the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and other mysterious monuments whose true meanings and purposes have been lost for eons.

Stein and Day First editions: no later printings mentioned.
Book #1 of the Earth Chronicles volumes.

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Over the years, startling evidence has been uncovered, challenging established notions of the origins of life on Earth - evidence that suggests the evidence of an advanced group of extraterrestrials who once inhabited our world.

The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series offers indisputable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet of Nibiru and tells why its astronauts came to Earth eons ago to fashion mankind in their image.

The product of more than thirty years of meticulous research, The 12th Planet treats as fact, not myth, the tales of Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, and the Nefilim who married the daughters of man.

This is a 1906 German Language book from the Heath's Modern Language Series titled "L'Arrabbiata" by Paul Heyse (noted German novelist)
Copyrighted 1892 by Dr. Wilhelm Bernhardt - (H.S. German Language)
Published by D.C. Heath & Co., Boston, U.S.A.
Hardcover book / 86 pages / - book is printed in Gothic German

This is a 1906 German Language book from the Heath's Modern Language Series titled "Fritz auf Ferien" by Hans Arnold (Babette von Bulow)
Copyrighted 1896 by A.W. Spanhoofd - (High School German Language)
Published by D.C. Heath & Co., Boston, U.S.A.
Hardcover book / 92 pages / - book is printed in Gothic German

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Title: The Fountains Paradise
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Copyright: Jan 1979
Edition: First edition / First printing.
***During the years 1973 to 1983, HBJ did not use the "A" but used "First edition/BCDE" to designate a first printing.

Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator. This "orbital tower" is a giant structure rising from the ground and linking with a satellite in geostationary orbit at the height of approximately 36,000 kilometers (approx. 22,300 miles). Such a structure would be used to raise payloads to orbit without having to use rockets, making it much more cost effective.

This is a Second Grade Reader schoolbook from the Eclectic School Readings Series titled "Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans" by Edward Eggleston - Copyright 1895 and published by the American Book Co., New York~Cincinnati~Chicago - Hardcover / 159 pages / illustrated
-- This is part two of my previous post showing some illustrations of how American Indians were portrayed in this book. These three illustrations are signed by C.S. (Charles Stanley) Reinhart who also did all the illustrations in the Eclectic School Third Grade Reader I posted earlier. These are all dated '95 making these some of his last illustrations. He died in 1896 at the age of 52.

This is a Second Grade Reader schoolbook from the Eclectic School Readings Series titled "Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans" by Edward Eggleston - Copyright 1895 and published by the American Book Co., New York~Cincinnati~Chicago - Hardcover / 159 pages / illustrated
-- Stories covers such Great Americans as Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, John Stark, Benny West (painter), Daniel Boone, Washington Irving, John Audubon (naturist), Daniel Webster, Longfellow, and Horace Greeley. Many of the stories depict these Great Americans during their childhood years to appeal to the ages of the pupils. Also I notice that some of the larger words and names are hyphenated to seperate the syllables, another aid in learning to read at such a young age. Many of the illustrations also depict these Americans as young boys. Only two Great American women mentioned, way back on the last few pages, Dorothy Dix & Louisa Alcott.

This is a Third Grade Reader schoolbook from the Eclectic School Readings Series titled "Old Greek Stories" by James Baldwin - Copyright 1895 and published by the American Book Co., New York~Cincinnati~Chicago
Typography by J.S. Cushing & Company, Norwood, Massachusetts
Hardcover / 208 pages / illustrations all by C.S. Reinhart (1844-1896)
- Illustrations above are from "The Story of Io", "Admetus and Alcestis", and "The Horse and the Olive" -- There are 15 total stories.

This is a Third Grade Reader schoolbook from the Eclectic School Readings Series titled "Old Greek Stories" by James Baldwin - Copyright 1895 and published by the American Book Co., New York~Cincinnati~Chicago
Typography by J.S. Cushing & Company, Norwood, Massachusetts
Hardcover / 208 pages / illustrations all by C.S. Reinhart (1844-1896)
- Illustrations above are from "The Story of Prometheus", "The Lord of the Silver Bow", and "The Wonderful Artisian" -- There are 15 total stories.

I picked up this 8 volume encyclopedia yesterday. It was printed from 1880-86 in Paris and appears to be in near new condition! it's incredibly interesting and loaded w/ thousands of beautiful graphics of every type of technology and science i can think of. It must have been very expensive in it's day. I'll post some more photos from it later, because so many of them are so fascinating. Nothing has ever made me recall my french like this set of books has done in such a short time!

it's not really a dictionary, but it is an encyclopedia of industrial arts from the beaux arts period.

]]>Books / Dictionarieshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/127312-more-photos-of-the-industrial-arts-encychttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/127312-more-photos-of-the-industrial-arts-encycTo the Land of the Living by Robert Silverberghttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/127275-to-the-land-of-the-living-by-robert-silv
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Title: To the Land of the Living
Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Victor Gollancz LTD
Copyright: 1989
Edition: 1st edition / 1st printing

*Signed by Robert Silverberg

Sequel to his novel Gilgamesh the King as well as a story in the shared universe series Heroes in Hell. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1987 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1986. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, it was then printed in Rebels in Hell before being incorporated into Silverberg's novel To the Land of the Living. Real-life writers Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft feature as characters in the novella.

Silverberg compiled the three stories as To the Land of the Living, revising the stories to remove any references to other writers' contributions to "Heroes in Hell" to avoid copyright issues. To the Land of the Living was published in the British market in 1989 and reprinted in an American edition in 1990.

]]>Books / Signed Bookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/127275-to-the-land-of-the-living-by-robert-silvhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/127275-to-the-land-of-the-living-by-robert-silvGilgamesh The King by Robert Silverberghttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/127273-gilgamesh-the-king-by-robert-silverberg
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:48:44 -0700

I picked up this 8 volume encyclopedia yesterday. It was printed from 1880-86 in Paris and appears to be in near new condition! it's incredibly interesting and loaded w/ thousands of beautiful graphics of every type of technology and science i can think of. It must have been very expensive in it's day. I'll post some more photos from it later, because so many of them are so fascinating. Nothing has ever made me recall my french like this set of books has done in such a short time!

]]>Books / Dictionarieshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/126842-ex-libris-a-koltchak-paris-1900-dicthttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/126842-ex-libris-a-koltchak-paris-1900-dict1897 - School History of the United Stateshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/126735-1897--school-history-of-the-united-stat
Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:19:09 -0700

This is a schoolbook edition titled "School History of the United States" by John Bach McMaster (Prof. of American History, Univ. of Pennsylvannia)
- Copyright & published 1897 by American Book Company, New York
- Hardcover book / 476 pages / illustrated throughout with lithograph etchings, numerous black & white and color illustrated period-era maps, and etched portraits of early Presidents - includes a 30 page appendix with complete printings of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

This is a "Harper's Third Reader" schoolbook edition from the Harper's Educational Series used as grade school textbook (est. 3rd grade levels)
- Copyrighted 1888 by Harper & Brothers, New York
- Published in 1888 by the American Book Company, New York & Chicago
- Hardcover book / 320 pages / illustrated with lithograph etchings

]]>Books / Cookbookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/126685-2004--marlboro-cookbookhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/126685-2004--marlboro-cookbookHistoric Cabinet; containing Authentic Accounts of Many Remarkable and Interesting Events which have taken place in Modern Timehttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/126660-historic-cabinet-containing-authentic-a
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:32:28 -0700

1834 New Haven. Published by L. H. Young. Illustrated w/ loads of great engravings. Fine calfskin cover w/ gilt decoration. beautiful condition! really interesting stories - most of which i'd never heard before. one is a really sad account of the billions of american passenger pigeons massacred by people and written by john james audubon. i've read lots of the stories already - can hardly put it down.

This is a paperback book edition of Ropp's New Calculator - a commercial calculator and short-cut arithmetic guidebook designed for use by farmers, mechanics, business and professional men, bankers, and dealers in grain, stock, cotton, coal, lumber, produce, feed, etc. -- First copyrighted by Christian Ropp in 1869, 1873, 1882, 1887, and 1903; this is the 1906 copyrighted and printed edition - C. Ropp & Sons, Publishers, Chicago, Illinois
paperback, 160 pages, with some illustrations - 3 5/8" wide by 6 1/2" high pocket-size

Paul Jadis, "Crudeltà Umane Attraverso I Secoli: dalla flagellazione medioevale allo knout moderno" ("Human cruelties through the centuries: from medieval flogging to modern knout", 1910, first edition).
This book is, in my opinion, really outstanding: it represents the kind of "exploitation" titles which, with the excuse of recounting "historical true facts" indulged in morbid and sexual forbidden topics. Almost every illustration here shows nude women, mostly in a spanking/flogging context. The text itself, pretending to loathe the punishments it describes, is full of (un)intentional irony.

this is a vintage paperback recipes from governors -senators -& even Princess Grace of Monaco has 2 recipes in it. the first 2 pages were loose when i got it & i put them somewhere for safe keeping -- can't find them right off hand.

I found these books at a garage sale today.
harry potter books signed by J.K rowling.
Excellent condition .Canadian edition Raincoast books.

]]>Books / Childrens Bookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/125837-3-harry-potter-books-signed-by-j-k-rowlihttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/125837-3-harry-potter-books-signed-by-j-k-rowliA Popular History of the United States of Americahttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/125819-a-popular-history-of-the-united-states-o
Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:40:21 -0700

I found this book at an estate sale this weekend. I have found books close to it but have been unable to find the exact book. The front cover is ornate and states "Souvenir of American History". The similar books that I found did not have the ornate front cover or the sourenir statement. They also lacked the George Washington signed on the front cover.

I'm not sure exactly when the book was published but it's estimated between 1898-1905. It was published by Hinds, Noble & Eldredge in New York City. It says on the first page that it was written by Rev. James B. Finch, M. A., D. D. The outside of the book is hardcover with a tan colored fabric binding. There is a signature on the inside of the front cover, William Munday. I dont have any more information about this book, so any information would be helpful

Sorry for late respons Vetraio50! Thank you so muck for your help! I am so greatful! How do you know all these things?! Unfortunately this book has been used a lot by earlier generations so it´s not intact. It´s missing front and a few pages. But after your coment I have carefully looked threw it to see if I could find Erik Tunells name anywhere. I dont know the title of the book but I found a loose page that someone before me had used as a bookmark in the book, it look like it could say Tunell. And maybe something like "Geograf...utkast öfver Kon:Riket Sverige af Ericus Tunell". So maybe it´s what you refered to. I Think this is probably the firts page of the book. What do you think Vetraio? It looks like handwriting to me.

What's great about this book is that´s it´s from 1748 and hold information about what was history already to them. For exampel when I read about my part of the country it say's that a meating was held here 1347 (!!!) by king Magnus Erikson. I can also read about little villages and what they lived off, who owned a specifik estate etc. I have goose bumps!

This is the book that the Hitler stamps were found inside it is about Hitler and the SS which were basically Hitler's bodyguards and henchmen, there were eight originals , but five top guys around Hitler ,four are shown above with Hitler and their signatures the fifth man was discovered to be Jewish and was kicked out, but later was reinstated but not allowed to wear the official SS uniform, the scary looking fellow is Hitler's number one hit man in uniform, according to this book there are photos inside that have never been published before,but I wouldn't know since I haven't read many books on the topic .

Today I get to open my library and open boxes of china and glass wear from mid Century. I can only post a few pictures at a time, but will try to post the most interesting items. I love to show and tell, everything here is just so unique, and has a history behind it all. I have turned several collectors onto this site, to educate them on some items that they have a hard time to find information on. This site is a great learning tool. D

I picked this up at the same place as the Captain Midnight pin, and I have no idea why! Just a cool piece. As a former Police Officer, the one I carried around (early 80s) was a LOT thicker than this one. This one is 37 pages, the one for 2013 is 674!! Something different!

This book is made of wood. The front and back is held together with two small pieces of metal. Made in Italy is impressed in the side of the border. This is one of my thrift store finds. I love the way it's decorated. It could be displayed opened or closed.

These are the old books that I saved as a child. They have a lot of wear and tare (old and not made by me) and feeling to them. The 1748 one is a description of what land and estates belonged to the Crown and others. The other two are Bibles.
How should I keep these and should I treat the leather some how?

Anyone know where I can get more info on this book? Haven't found this copy on the internet.
The Words of the Lord Jesus by Rudolf Stier, D.D., Late chief pastor and superintendent of Schkeuditz.
Translated Chiefly by Rev. William B. Pope
Revised by James Strong, S.T.D., and
Rev. Henry B. Smith, D.D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York
Published by N. Tibbals, Library Association, 37 Park Row, 1864
6.5 x 9.75" Hard cover book, 695 pages
It has a "Preface To The American Edition

When last Summer we visited Hill House in Helensburg, one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterworks, I saw these book cover designs Mackintosh made for Blackie & Son in the 1920s. I absolutely loved them and made up my mind i should get the three designs attributed to him, so for the last year I've been looking for them, and getting them to give Carlos as a non-birthday present (you know, the kind of present you give a loved one just because... who hasn't read Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? LOL).

I love the simplicity about them. Just take a look at the lettering in "The four Miss Whittingtons"... isn't it simply amazing?

On the last picture you can see the spines, which are a great work on their own..

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"The Saucy May" had an ex-libris that has been removed, but "The Brig "Audacious" has got a label where you can read "(Third) Awarded to Stanley Fox 1930 Primitive Methodist Sunday School", whereas"The Four Miss Whittingtons has got written "Heighington United Methodist Sunday School. Presented to Dorothy Exby. Feb 17th 1929".

I see thes Blackie books were very popular amongst Methodist Sunday Schools :)

Hello: This is an old children book called "Fábulas de Samaniego".
Was printed in Spain in 1931 by Ramón Sopena Editors.
70 pages with amazing illustration in black and white, each short history is a fable where human interact with animals giving to the reader always a deep moral.
I found this book many years ago in an old book store.
With love,
Virginia. Vintage

I just bought this at a yard,oops, estate sale yesterday! It appears to be some sort of a ships stores log ? Perhaps it is just a personal log.

It is 14 inches by 6 inches and leather bound. It is unusual in that it is written in both from the front and from the back. When I say "from the back" I mean that if you hold it with the spine to your right hand and open it as you would a Japanese or Hebrew book there are entries. The middle section of the book is devoid of writing.

The back cover has the words Bristol Maine written on it. The front cover is blank.

The predominant name in the book seems to be Samuel Tucker. ???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Tucker ???

These bookends were Produced by J.B. Hirsch in 1927 from the original French mold by Austrian Costume Designer and Sculptor, Gerda Iro Gerdago. These Pixie Readers are dressed in the elaborate Deco dance costuming that Gerdago was famous for. They have tall pointed hats and their dance costumes have elaborate hand detailing on the arms and legs. They are decorated with polychrome metallic gold. The metal is spelter

The set is in excellent condition with very minor paint loss, light patina on some areas. The black and white veined marble bases are in excellent condition also. There were two varieties of these pixies, one with arms down holding a book (this set) and one with arms raised holding a book.
The base is 5" x 3.25" x 1" The pixies are 4 3/4" tall.

Found this picture in a 1999 wade book. It shows a scotch whisky decanter by wade made for Aspreys..
im not saying yours is wade or Beswick even Doulton but it maybe worth a look I that direction ..
I dont have a clue how old yours is poss 50s- 90s

I got this at a thrift store for a couple of bucks. Heck, the Bible has to be worth more than that! I already have someone who wants to buy it, so I'll sand it up nice and pretty, make it very soft and smooth for her.

Hello, this is another edition of the collection "La hora del niño" by Ethel Fairmont.
Was printed in Mexico in 1956.
Really have many lovely graphics and texts.
As usual, I found it in my favourite place, flea markets. ;)
Enjoy ;)

I have been trying to find out who manufactured these bookends, they reek of J B Hirsch, but the maker's mark is OOF or OFO, both are marked on the bottom of their bases. They are a wonderful pair of Art Deco faux ivory and bronzed spelter minstrel figural bookends on marble bases. They measure 5" long x 5 1/2" tall x 3 1/2". One features a Pierrot figure playing a lute. He has been manufactured about a dozen times with a little variation.

There have been two versions of the woman figure that I have found, one called "Party Girl" where she appears to be emptying a Pilsner beer glass, the other is called "Castanet Player". I believe this one was probably playing the castanets, since that version was manufactured earlier and would fit in with the musical theme of the bookends.

The marble bases on each are not in the best of shape and both have been repaired throughout their life time. The Pierrot lute player's base has fared bettered than the lady. The back portion of the lady's base has broken off at one time (I venture to bet it was the same time her glass or castanet broke off), and has been repaired.

While J B Hirsch made variations of both bookends in the mid to late twenties, I do not believe he manufactured these due to the "OOF" or "OFO" makers mark. Hirsch's figures were not on marble bases with a marble book-backs, the figures were either backed by themselves on the bookends or had a cast metal back. However both had marble bases on the bottom portion of the bookend. They do look very Hirschlike.

I recently bought a set of old bookends with OOF Germany on them, when I was researching the mark, I found a similar mark but from Czechoslovakia, my book marks are marble based, but the Chek mark (no pun intended) appears on porcelain items. Does anyone know anything about OOF? Is it a guild or company?

This is a "How and Why Discoveries" Science Book from the Scientific Living Series used as grade school textbooks (estimating this at the 5th-6th grade levels) - Copyrighted 1940, 1947, & 1949 by L.W. Singer Company, Syracuse, New York - (estimate published 1949 based on illustrations)
Hardcover book / 384 pages / illustrated in black & white and color
** Chapters are related to Animals - Food/Energy/Growth, Wildlife Conservation, Birds & Water Life, Air/Water/Minerals, Earth in the Universe, Magnetic & Electrical Energy, Sound, Weather, Health & Medicines, and Science.

You might run across one of these, but never would I have thought I find one that had never been opened. Scared to open to far as not to crease the covers. This is an Original 193 Chevrolet Service Manual, dated Dec 1937 from GM. The stales that reinforce the binding have rusted almost to being gone. So photos of open page was carefully held as not to disturb the binding.
Hope you enjoyed seeing this and gargoylecollect, yes I have your address, lol
Kerry

Vintage German Bible Book Hardback Religious Song Books and prayer book . 1903.and 29.X.35.
. Bambergae, die 22 .mens. Novembris 1903.Measures app.4 +6 inch.
From GERMANY .
Thank you for the help!!
I appreciate any insight from anyone.
leon.

]]>Books / Bibleshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/122382-vintage-german-bible-book-hardback-relighttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/122382-vintage-german-bible-book-hardback-relig1818 "An Appeal To Matter Of Fact And Common Sense" By John Fletcher http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/122299-1818-an-appeal-to-matter-of-fact-and-co
Sat, 10 May 2014 03:59:31 -0700

Hmmm....I keep emergency cash tucked between the pages of this very very old book, hidden good somewhere inside my truck. Other than that, this book can make quite interesting reading material. But mainly, its the perfect size for emergency cash storage & storing away. =^'

One of the many great things about living in the bay area is bumping into great art in unexpected places. Bufano's work in particular, can be found in odd places - from hospital waiting rooms to airports, even to private homes and in front of a local VFW. I just love his work - mosaics, sculptures - animals, people...

I was so excited to find this oversized book on Bufano from 1967 in perfect condition! Published for the Bufano Society of the Arts by John Weatherill; Inc. Tokyo.

I stacked my lgb collection against the wall to do a thorough cleaning around their bookshelves and took a picture of them in all their gilded glory. I currently have just under 1100 unique titles, with a few different editions of duplicate titles (difference in cover, etc.). I have about 300 or so to finish out collecting all titles published. I'm such a dork about them I created a spreadsheet and got an autographed collector's guide. My holy grail would be a complete set of the first 12 A printings with dust jackets from October 1942, but I'm not able to pay the cost associated with obtaining them at the moment. I also have about 200 various formats by golden: first Littles, big Littles, tiny library, records, and shape books

Hello, this is a lovely book "Songs for Children" by Laura Bryant.
Copyright in 1927 for the American Book Company, made in USA.
Illustrations by Holmes Stephenson, M. Hallock and w. Bromhall.
Enjoy :)

"The Little Lady of the Big House" - by Jack London
Copyrighted 1915, 1916 by Jack London / ** First Edition
First Printing - April 1916 / Published by The MacMillan Company, NY
Blue pictorial cloth hardcover, 392 pages / very good condition

I think that today is the right day to post this item. Today is ANZAC Day here in Australia, and is our national day of remembrance. It is also a most important day in New Zealand.
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, and the 25th April 1915 was the first day of battle for this army. On this day 99 years ago the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli, a proud new force from 2 nascent countries.

This book is one of eight we own that were previously owned by my father.
Dad was a very active member of the RSL (Returned Services League) and Legacy, and one of his legatees, a widow of a WW1 veteran, gave him these books many years ago.

"The Great War, The Standard History of the All-European Conflict" was a series of 13 Volumes, printed between 1914 and 1919 by The Amalgamated Press, London. This volume was printed in 1916. It covers chapters LXXXIV to XCIX, with chapter names such as "The Breaking of the Russian Fortress Lines and the Failures of Mackensen and Hindenburg", and "The Glorious and Terrible Campaign of the Mesopotamian Army".

The astonishing thing about these volumes is that they were printed while the war was in progress, and are written in an almost informal manner, with many wonderful period photographs. The detail given is extraordinary, and surprisingly not showing much degree of Allied bias. Comments about the Germans or Russians or other opposition forces are kept respectful and factual. Even Allied campaigns are observed critically, and decisions by leaders and generals are evaluated, not revered. Modern journalists could possibly read and learn!

It has been edited to include first person letters and reports from those involved. For example, this volume has a section by The Hon. Mrs Alfred Lyttleton, on the "Care of Belgian Refugees". The internet news of it's time I guess. The first volume I have is from 1914, before Australia was even part of the war.

I have seen these volumes for sale, and surprisingly they are not outrageously expensive. I imagine they were printed in large numbers, and treasured by many.
Although not in great condition, we look after these volumes and treasure them. They are a constant entertainment and resource to me and my family, and are often read.

We are reading them today.

Lest We Forget

]]>Books / Military and War Bookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/120898-the-great-war--volume-5-of-13http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/120898-the-great-war--volume-5-of-131923 - "The Zodiac and Its Mysteries"http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/120883-1923--the-zodiac-and-its-mysteries
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:01:16 -0700

An old children book copyright in the United States of America in 1941.
Is a spanish version,124 pages.
Full of magics illustrations as you can see.
I found it in a feria in Montevideo.
I really love it!
Enjoy :)

I’m still working on helping my mother clear out her basement, and found these treasures among boxes of cookbooks.

The Victory Cookbook, published 1943 – Given free as a Lysol promotion. Recipes that save ration points, and feed the family well without scarce and expensive foods. It’s a nice memento of food rationing on the Home Front in the US during WWII.

The Sun Prize Winners 6th Annual Cook Book, put out by the Vancouver Sun (Vancouver BC Canada, not Vancouver WA, U.S.), published 1938. I mostly wanted to share this for the cover art. I assume to was a special section of the paper, as there is no price on it. Lots of economizing tips listed here too, although Canada would not be at war till the following year.

Picked this up in South Dallas today, estate sale bargain. The sticker said $5.00 and I thought I can't pass this up. Found out it wasn't a theater program but a Campaign booklet sent to the theater for promoting the movie in 1977. (Lucasfilm, 1977) The Star Wars campaign book, a lavishly illustrated large-format book, which was sent to theaters before the films release to help sell the film to theater owners. This is the very rare pre-release book that both feature the "pointy W" logo style that was later changed to the logo used on everything since the release of the film.

This is one of my treasures, an old school book for children.
Was made in 1955 and I think is Russian.
I love the graphics and colors, inside have pages hand writing maybe for a little girl or boy many years ago.
I found it in a flea market in my city.
Enjoy :)

1953 - Edition of "Motor Tourist's Guide" - A Popular Mechanics Book
by: John P. Arnold / Published by Popular Mechanics Press
- A comprehensive guidebook of routes and resorts, maps and sights, the finer points of driving, and a driver safety tips manual.
paperback book / 160 pages / fully illustrated / very good condition

]]>Bookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/120215-1953--motor-tourists-guide--bookhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/120215-1953--motor-tourists-guide--bookComic History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great by Charles M. Snyder - 2nd posthttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/119846-comic-history-of-greece-from-the-earlies
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 01:35:11 -0700

here's a few more of the many, many great illustrations in this rare book. i spent all evening into the wee hours reading through it the other night. i wish i knew more about the classics and even american history, as i'm sure that i didn't get 90% of the jokes. but the ones i did get were pretty funny!

]]>Books / First Edition Bookshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/119846-comic-history-of-greece-from-the-earlieshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/119846-comic-history-of-greece-from-the-earliesComic History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great by Charles M. Snyderhttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/119845-comic-history-of-greece-from-the-earlies
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 01:25:59 -0700

I think i've found a little treasure in this book! Loaded w/ satire, i think that it is more about American and [to a lesser extent] European politics of the time than about Greek history. The beautiful illustrations by Sloan utilize all the techniques he was studying from Japanese ukiyo-e prints at the time. This was the beginning of what was called the 'Art Poster', often seen as the birth of art nouveau in America. I'll put some of the other illustrations in another post. The ones by W. M. Goodes and Bob Addams look so much like R. Crumb, but this book is from 1897! I swear some of the characters are exactly like Crumb characters.

This period of time was a really fertile one for American illustration - gave birth to Maxfield Parrish [the antithesis of John Sloan, in many ways], Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, etc. Many of them were from Philadelphia as well. Aspiring artists of the day were usually from wealthy families, and often studied abroad in Europe, but Sloan never did any of that because his family was poor [or became poor]. Sloan became an active member of the communist party, incurring the wrath of many which could explain why very little is written about this book. I found mention of it in many places, but it seems to be pretty rare. I'd love to get more info about it if anyone out there knows...

Some of the comical illustrations in this book look like very early political cartoons.

This is a pocket Bible book of the New Testament. - 3" by 4 7/8"
"New Testament" / The authorized King James version of 1611
Printed by A. J. Holman / Philadelphia - 1948
Black leather cover with gold print title - 463 pages
- In addition, The Book of Psalms at the end - 112+ pages

I loved this book when I, as a teenager, found this old book for nearly nothing. I remember being moved by her writing about optimism, knowing she did´nt have an easy life. This book tought me something about life, when I needed it. The cover is very nice I think.

The titel is "My key of life - optimism, an essay by Hellen Keller". In the book you can read "London: Ibister & Company, 15 6 16 Tavistock St. Covent Garden 1904." It is printed by Ballantyne, hanson & Co".

I think this old book is so nice. It has been someones poetry book. Things were the same then as they are now, we have great plans sometimes but we just don't get that far. There is a beautiful first attempt, illustrated and painted and that's it...

A friend just recently purchased this, no idea on its worth. Giant color-and-learn book. Never colored in. All pages. Tells story with pics. Guy at coloring book page said there are too many laws for them to buy something alcohol and "kid" related. Thoughs?

Cast iron pigeon book ends obtained a few years ago from another garage sale.
They are very proud looking birds and I couldn't help but like them.
Found under a house near the bay they had a fair bit of surface rust which I cleaned up and sprayed with preservative. A slight amount of rust has come back but nothing to be concerned about. Cast iron lasts!!!

These were originally designed, and sculpted by a well-known Ukrainian Artist, Bruno Zach. These Asian Fighters, were produced by the JB Hirsch Foundry. Depicted are male warriors in a commanding stance, positioned securely on green onyx signed stylized bases. Intact sets are an extreme rarity. This set is missing a spear point on one of the bookends.

Hirsch produced this design in two varieties. The rarest being those mounted on onyx bases, having Ivorine faces, and baked black enamel over a grey metal body. These are instead, monochrome; all silver, the finish is plated silver, over a metal casting, the base though is shade darker like an old used pinball silver. These are a large, impressive, and substantial size, standing at 6.5" Tall, 5.5" Long, 3.25" Deep, and about 5 lbs. for the pair.

The sculptures are patterned by sculptor Bruno Zach. His lovely and filigree bronze figures always reach high prices at auctions all over the world. Some of his best known bronze sculptures are named A Dancer, Girl with a Cigarette, The Riding Crop, Female Huntress with Hound, Lady in Riding Outfit with Horse, Dancer with three-quarter length Stockings, Dancer” and Kicking Girl.

His teachers were Hans Bitterlich, who taught as professor at the Academy during 1901 and 1931 and Josef Müllner, who hold a professor since 1910. Zach worked during his time in Vienna for many various foundries, where he improved his sculpting skills and created many bronze statues.

He became famous for his Art Deco figures of dancing women. The talented sculptor reflected the typical Art Deco characteristics on his sculptures.

This is a pair of antique brass horse bookends. - Circa early 20th century
Made of solid cast brass and attached to bases with screws to the feet; each weighs over 3 1/2 pounds, are 9" long (base 3" wide), and stand 7 3/4" tall.
The tails and manes are detailed and there are engraved details on both sides of the snouts and also behind the forelegs. (yes, I have polished them)

The author acknowledges the need to bring truth to readers over many rumors about how Baalbek was built. It is a new theory unknown to many archeologists and suspicious scientists.It is untrue that aliens existed and were involved in building the megalithic stone temple of Baalbek.

"Every morning, on the way to the park, a little boy and his grandmother
passed a big gray building with large windows. It was always a very
noisy and busy place. He knew that the place was a factory, and every
time he passed it, he wanted to ask his grandmother what the people
inside were making. But every time he was walking by, the loud noises
coming from inside scared him and made him walk or even run away.
He always forgot to ask his question. But that morning, it was unusually
quiet. There were a few people outside; it looked like they were getting
ready to do something important. Then the boy remembered what he
always wanted to ask his grandmother, “What were the people inside
making?” His grandmother stopped and said, “I think it’s a good time
for you to look inside.”"

The book is about the all of the past perfumes and fragrances made by Hermes, this book came with a bottle I purchased many years ago!! and the last picture is to give an idea on how small the book is!!

Last week I bought this vintage c. 1910 Heintz bookrack or bookslide which expands from approximately 13 to 21 inches. Each leaf measures 6"x 6" while the fumed oak base is 6" wide. Beautiful sterling silver overlay of Art Nouveau stylized florals on bronze. Original patina throughout. It's marked STERLING on the lower left of each leaf.
I've seen loads of Heintz items over the years (usually vases or bowls but also some bookends) but have never seen this particular one. If anyone out there knows its exact age (perhaps seen it in a vintage catalog?) then I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know.

Old books are like time machines. This 1879 book once belonged to a Ms. or Mr. R R Hamby or Harley of 2013 Euclid Ave Cleveland. I googled the address and checked the Cleveland archives and was only able to find out that this Cleveland address is listed as an Historical Site. Other than the hand written name and address written inside this book is a temporary mystery for now. But the illustrations inside this book of "old World" America is still sublime in every way. I'll be doing some digging & will post what I uncover, til then enjoy! =^)

I'm a sucker for book sales & fairs, especially when "Old Books" are on the menu. I got these antique old world beauties for $1.00 each which I had no trouble coughing over. And for the almost unused condition, tight spine, and pristine print images. I had to secure them as mine as quickly as possible. I was also glad to not find and stamp marks from a library or school on these. I'm still keeping my eyes open for the rest of the books to complete this set, but if older editions come my way at an unbeatable bargain. They're mine! =^'

PICKED THESE UP AT A SALE. THEY ARE VERY HEAVY CARVED STONE APPROXIMATELY 4 INCHES WIDE BY 5 INCHES TALL. NO IDEA AS TO MAKER OR MATERIAL JUST LIKED THEM ON SIGHT. DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE BOOKENDS OR PAPERWEIGHTS.

Before Dan Brown's fictional book the "DaVinci Code" came to the public eye. This was the book that shook the world since Charles Darwin's "Origin Of Species" was published in 1859. In The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, the authors put forward a hypothesis, that the historical Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had one or more children, and that those children or their descendants emigrated to what is now southern France. Once there, they intermarried with the noble families that would eventually become the Merovingian dynasty, whose special claim to the throne of France is championed today by a secret society called the Priory of Sion. They concluded that the legendary Holy Grail is simultaneously the womb of saint Mary Magdalene and the sacred royal bloodline she gave birth to.

Okay, I enjoy hearing stories from people with imagination. This book though can be very mind opening on possibilities. =^'
Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past (German: Erinnerungen an die Zukunft: Ungelöste Rätsel der Vergangenheit) is a book authored in 1968 by Erich von Däniken. It involves the hypothesis that the technologies and religions of many ancient civilizations were given to them by ancient astronauts who were welcomed as gods.

Well I got em', I have been waiting for a set of these bookends for about a year now, and a pair of them showed up on eBay and I won them. They were not in the best of shape, one had her face missing but it was saved (the lower third of it is missing), but I used it anyway restoring them.. They look great with the clock, now I need the lamp that goes with them. The lamp is a larger version of one of the bookends and features the lady on the clock, the bulb to the lamp is hidden behind the wall the figure is sitting on. I am a happy camper.

An old world view of the old world is not seen better than in an old world book. This gazetteer is filled with all land & sea areas that back in the day there were no fears or worries that the public might really see what is actually in the middle of the South Pole, like an unfrozen lake. Or species of animals than are uncategorized because they don't fit theories of natural selection. =^`

Here is one of the most interesting finds I have made in quite a while. This is an original 1899 copy of “Mechanics Of Surgery, Comprising Detailed Descriptions, Illustrations and Lists of The Instruments, Appliances, and Furniture Necessary in Modern Surgical Art”, by Charles Truax. This book is 1029 pages packed with every conceivable instrument of the day. Let me tell you something, most of the stuff in here gives me the creeps, I cannot imagine these being used on me.
Here is a quote from a website, “The most authoritative source on surgical instruments and apparatus of its day, Truax’s encyclopedic work describes and depicts virtually the entire range of instrumentation employed in the surgical and medical practice at the turn of the century.”, not bad for $1.00....

I just had to have these. They are brilliantly amazing sculptures of design. These "Rubenesque Nude Women" were sculpted and signed by Eduardo Strauch in 1994.

Eduardo Strauch was born on the 13th of August 1947 in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he lives today. From a young age he dabbled in painting and sculpture, but he did not pursue them at that time. In 1972, while traveling to Santiago, Chile, accompanying the Stella Maris College alumni rugby team, the plane crashed in the middle of the Andes. This difficult experience, in which the group was kept isolated for 72 days under the most inhospitable conditions imaginable, at 12,000 feet, was a turning point in his life. This was the start of a process, at age 25, which would become another source for his creativity. The 1993 movie "Alive" is about the 1972 plane crash in the Andes Mountains. Currently he continues his work in architecture and paints at his studio in the countryside, preparing works for exhibitions in Uruguay and abroad. He also travels internationally, giving motivational talks about his experience in the Andes. He has a passion for travel and for nature, which are the source of the inspiration for his artistic
creations.

Disney Legend artist Mary Blair illustrated several children's books in addition to her celebrated conceptual paintings for Disney animated features such as Cinderella and Peter Pan. This lovely book cover combined the best of both worlds, as Mary also worked on Disney's Sleeping Beauty feature. This wraparound cover illustration, painted in gouache on board, has an image area of 18.25" x 12", and has been matted and framed with glass for an overall 24" x 18". Personal collection of CollectorsShangri-La.com. Not for sale.

I recently bought these highly unusual Jennings Brothers metal bookends and was hoping that someone would be able to tell me something more about them. The bases, as you can see, are a SUPER example of art deco styling, and I believe that the rocket or missile theme makes them an extremely unusual (and rare?) combination! I'm thinking that they "might" perhaps have been an attempt by J.B. to offer their customers a futuristic "Flash Gordon" or "Buck Rogers" type space-age theme, but that would of course just be a guess...

The brass colored finish on the rockets (in pics #3 & #4) was quite worn on both, and so I'm having them "sanded" off like you see in pic #1. When the rockets were removed it became possible to view the underside (pic #2) where you can clearly see "J.B. 333" preceded by the "copyright" symbol. J.B. also appears again on the backs of both bookends. I've done an extensive Google search using all kinds of combinations, but have been unable to locate even a single other example of these particular bookends; so I'd appreciate it if anyone could tell me more about them.
Thanks in advance!

First post so I hope I do this right. I think this may be a book mark. The kind you clip on a page. It has no marks and is metal except for the picture and is about 3" high. I recall seeing the pictures like this but I don't know what to call them. The metal is very thin and it does not stick to a magnet. To be honest I am not sure where it came from. I seriously doubt it has any value but I would like to know what to call it.

This is a 1955 "Reflector" Farrell, Pennsylvania Yearbook. In the second photo you can see a blueprint of the plans for the recreational area landscaping to be done for the high school. Yearbooks are a great way to see into the past and what school was like back in the day.

This is a 1950 "Mirror" Sharon, Pennsylvania yearbook. Sharon, PA is located on the PA/OH border and was once an industrious steel city. This yearbook is full of signatures and advertisements congratulating the students of the graduating class. Yearbooks are a great way to see in to the past.

This is a 1996 Zippo Lighter Collector's Guide from the Zippo Lighter Manufacturing Company, Bradford, PA. - It is a paperback, 27 page, illustrated booklet covering all lighters issued from the first year of 1932 to the latest 1996 "Pin-up Girls" issues. - In the back is a chart to identify the date-of-manufacture codes imprinted on all Zippo products.

Almost 140 years old, pretty fragile but I believe in its entirety ...
pretty intriguing that this was the latest up-to-date account of our country when it was only 100 years young.
Will be interesting to see what was important enough for inclusion at that time that isn't in the history books of today.
"Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1876, by John T. Jones, In the Office of The Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C." Welcome and greatly appreciate any knowledge about this volume, or comments in general!! ~Teri~ salvagedmemories@hotmail.com

I thought I would share these with all of you :) these and many more from an old cookbook I have by Mary Dunbar, I believe back in the 1960s, divinity is my favorite :) whats yours ? or maybe you could make me some and send them to me :)

The "Young Debbie" ditty was written on the bus pass, while sitting behind me, and next to his wife, Janet Jepson, during a trip to our group's viewing site. This was during my second trip to Bermuda and every time I bent over the telescope to look at the sunspots, I got a pinch on my butt. This was followed by Janet, with her sun umbrella, saying, "Will you leave that poor girl alone?". She really felt sorry for me! Those two were Love Birds; no matter how many times he pinched me!

Fellow Nerds, I worked 2 jobs, at 18, and paid for programming school. No vacation for years (1970 grad) until I found an ad in Astronomy magazine for a trip to "Astronomy Island"; Bermuda. Took this trip 3 times with a great bunch of people, first 2 with Isaac. Our group was able to set up our equipment on an estate on the south side of the island and Isaac gave a riveting lecture about Neutrinos.

Hello, These really show the life of Japan in early 1800's!! 53 in accordion book! My son is 1/2 Japanese, so will save for him! I will spend a lot of time looking at these 53 prints as I find them fascinating! Thanks for looking!! torakat!

I received my lovely 22" Shirley Temple doll as a gift from my late Mother-in-Law. She won it at age 4 in a Shirley Temple lookalike contest in 1936. The last image shows her photo with her prized Shirley doll. I thought it would be nice to share this in honor of the great lady, Shirley Temple Black, who passed away yesterday.

Every adventurer knows the story of Don Quixote, and if they don't. The readings of this book will really open their heart & mind to what it means to keep the sun to their back & the wind on their face adventure.
=^)
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quixana, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote is met by the world as it is, initiating such themes as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). In a 2002 list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written".

This is a 1949 industrial supply catalog by Warren & Bailey Co. from Los Angeles, California. It is a hardback book of 296 pages that are highly detailed with images & drawings of pipe fittings, ball joints in original retro/vintage design & advertising artwork.....anyhow, it's the hardback book form that impresses me the most, besides the graphics. Especially compared to catalogs from 30 years ago. I just had to have for my collection, being Art as well as an antique. =^)

This book that we have collected is Copyright 1939, by Elizabeth Goudge "The Sister of the Angels". I would love to take the time to read it, but I just don't want to mess up the book and/or the pages. Does anyone know anything about this book?

I found over 200 books in a paper bin, over a period of a few months, 10 years ago.
Never found out who threw them away , until there were no more, the man had no more ! :(
The german book is a latin- german, german-latin lexicon.
Volume three or german- latin part.

Found this really nice 6 " Federal Glass Co. Trojan Horse bookend at GW. There was only the one but it's in excellent condition. In fact too good so I'm thinking it was probably made later than the forties but that's when the pattern was first introduced. They closed their doors in 1980. -Mike-

Federal Glass Company History :
www.suziemax.com

The Federal Glass Company was founded in 1900, in Columbus, Ohio and is one of the best known Depression Glass manufacturers.
The company originally made hand-blown glassware often decorated with pin-etched designs. By the 1920’s the Federal Glass Company had converted to mass manufacturing techniques, allowing them to produce large amounts of highly decorative glass types for a comparatively low price.
Particularly popular were forms which mimicked the effects of cut glass crystal, providing faceted surfaces in intricate geometric patterns and elegant embossed bas relief floral patterns. Combined with a growing palette of colors, some vivid and bright, some in soft, fashionable pastels, some in the opaque tones of various milk glasses, the fancy, lacy, flashing designs of pressed glass were a hit.
Federal Depression Glass items were used as free gifts and "saving stamp" items by grocery stores to attract customers, by carnivals as game prizes, and bought by young housewives just setting up their households. Depression glass was a reliable, lovely standby of the middle and lower class table from the 20s into the 60s, and one of the most popular producer of all was the Federal Glass Company.

Texas Indian Troubles Illustrated by Hilory .G. Bedford of Benjamin, Texas. Printed in 1905 by the Hargreaves Printing co. Inc, Dallas, Texas. This first edition was once the property of Mr. John Westley Adam of Decatur, Texas and noted 1870's Texas Ranger. It was passed down to his daughter after the passing of both Mr and Mrs. Adams. This book has been professionally rebound using the original front cover of the book. The book itself is completely in tact containing all pages. This book has several hand written notes inside it on different pages which describe both people and places known to the Adams family. Mr. H.G. Bedford is noted as a family friend as well as others. The book contains 43 chapters by 43 different people whom have related their personal conflicts with Indians in the state of Texas. I have read this book several times and in reading this book I am compelled to reread chapter 19. Entitled "Negro Brit's Family" starting on page 99 and ending on 102, I have found this chapter, one the most compelling love stories hidden inside a booked filled with violence, hate, ignorance, bigotry and loss. This chapter was not written by Mr Brit, whom I latter identified as Brit Johnson but friends who were dismayed that his story was not both widely known but felt that a monument should have been built on the spot where this "Man" fell. Please note that Mr. Britt Johnson had display such a great devotion and love for his family that one can only view him in awe. This book has been reprinted and is currently available for anyone who would like to read it. First editions are quite expensive and a bit hard to find, this first edition combined with the personal notes makes it the star of my western book collection. In photographing this book I looked for a way to show and express what I felt the book contained and I used a copy of my book Carbine & Lance by Colonel W.S. Nye to support Texas Indian Troubles as well as point out that while reading it I found a report of the killing of Brit Johnson made by an Indian who took part in the fight. If you find yourself reading either books you will find these stories compelling.

This is a Photographic Tour Guide of Washington, D.C. -- It has 32 pages containing black & white lithographs of all the various tourist sights and governmental buildings in the Nation's Capital. There are over 70 total lithographs, mostly full page. Two shown are the Lincoln Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial. -- Pages are 9 3/4" X 6 3/4" -- This paperback book
- - - - - - was copyrighted and published in 1942 by Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, Illinois.

This is a tourist photo book "Ricordo di Venzia" containing 20 vivid color photographs of Venice, Italy sealed in plastic in a fold-out attached format. Descriptions of the sites are printed on the backs. (Six shown) - Circa 1957
-- Venice is a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. - Another honeymoon stop.

This is a 1924 Player's Prompt Book for the drama "Icebound" by Owen Davis. - Copyright 1922, 1923 by Owen Davis; Copyright 1924 by Longmans, Green & Co., Publishers, New York. - Published by Longmans, Green & Co., NY - Paperback, 60 pages - Player's roles three-act drama.
This edition is noted at the top in handwritten pencil as Sadie Fellow's copy, who's role was played by Eva Condon in the play, Mary Foy in the silent movie - Pencil marks throughout noting her lines and also a handwritten character assessment as; Sadie Fellows - Widow; Age 40 or 45; Costume - Sober; "To provide for her son she construes her selfishness as her duty" - This book was used by Eva Condon, an actress of the Broadway stage and vaudeville, from the early to mid 20th century.
*** Icebound (1924) is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by William C. deMille, and based on a 1923 Pulitzer Prize Broadway produced play of the same name by Owen Davis. This film production was made at Paramount's Astoria Studios. - "Icebound" is now considered to be a lost film.
Cast:
Richard Dix – Ben Jordan
Lois Wilson – Jane Crosby
Helen Dubois – Emma Jordan
Edna May Oliver – Hannah
Vera Reynolds – Nettie Moore
Mary Foy – Sadie Fellowes *****
Joseph Depew – Orin Fellowes
Ethel Wales – Ella Jordan
Alice Chapin – Mrs. Jordan
John Daly Murphy – Henry Jordan
Frank Shannon – Judge Bradford

Inherited these from my great grandparents and have enjoyed looking at them for their grace and elegance over the last 20 years. There is something very magical about these Pixie girls. I love the soft lines and the contrast with the pointed hat and, of course, those divine faces.
The body is a painted (to look bronze) metal and they sit on a black marble platform. Overall about 5 inches tall and 5 plus inches long. Some paint chipped to reveal a base metal but overall in GREAT condition. Faces are painted to mimic flesh tones. Each one weighs well over 3 pounds.

Not signed, that I can see, but I have seen this style called French Art Deco and the design attributed to Geradago with reference to a foundry or maker called Hirsch?

The wispy, waiflike, elfen Pixie girl, whose hand is up near her face to shield her from the light of the globe/orb, just seems so mystical to me. Perhaps that is a crystal ball, metaphorically.

I have NEVER been able to find out if the globe/ball was original or some kind of improvised replacement for something else--but they seem so appropriate in size and image. I have seen Pixie Girl lamps with globe glass that illuminates so I like to think this is all from back in the day.

It has taken me years to complete this collection of only first editions / first printings with the added bonus of two signed books.

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The complete list:

Earth Chronicles volumes

1. The 12th Planet, 1976
2. The Stairway to Heaven, 1980
3. The Wars of Gods and Men, 1985
4. The Lost Realms, 1990
5. When Time Began, 1993
6. The Cosmic Code, Avon Books, 1998
7. The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return, 2007

Companion volumes

1. Genesis Revisited: Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge?, 1990
2. Divine Encounters: A Guide to Visions, Angels and Other Emissaries, 1995
3. The Lost Book of Enki: Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial god, 2001
4. The Earth Chronicles Expeditions, 2004
5. Journeys to the Mythical Past, 2007
6. The Earth Chronicles Handbook, 2009
7. There Were Giants Upon the Earth: Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry: The Evidence of Alien DNA, 2010

Thank you to Manikin for finding these for me I believe on Etsy. One of my many purchases in December. Not the biggest fan of their painting on this one but it was one of their styles at the Hirsch Foundry.

These 2 bookends are signed JB at the back of the bases, most likely to represent the JB Hirsch Foundry which manufactured them. Recently an auction company contacted me to authenticate theirs. Theirs were identical to mine and signed Tiffany and Company. I had never seen this done before on any other examples so I could not verify for a fact if they ever were sold by Tiffanys. That really is up in the air as to if examples of this bookend were ever sold by Tiffanys. No proof. I would rather very much doubt it as I am not sure if it is a good enough item to be sold by Tiffanys.

There are some bad ones the Hirsch foundry did in their last years of operation which are done in all black. They have metal faces and are out there for sale, they somehow more resemble a reproduction. They were also selling some with Millefiori shades which were new. A new millefiori shade is no where near as beautiful as an old one.

Presented here is a third group of vintage Premo Camera catalogue covers featuring women. If you’ve been following my posts, these later covers (left to right; 1914, 1917, and 1919) are now photographic in appearance and less painterly.

For the fun of it, I included 1922 to show the dramatic shift from the previous intimate subjects. It also tells prospective camera owners that these cameras can take ‘action’ pictures (as seen by the cat’s alarmed posture).

I found a crudely printed and hand-painted leaf of a bible. I think it is the Prologue to Paul's Epistles. The ink and colors are beautiful. The gold paint around the "P" is shiny and the heavy paper is manila color and laced with cloth fibers. I found it inside an old 1940's picture frame.
Size: Approx. 10 X 13.75 inches.
Can anyone help identify where this bible page was created and unravel the mystery document.

Also... Does anyone have any idea where, or who created this leaf? How do I determine if it is real or just a fancy old replica? All feedback is welcome.

Lotz Loetz Book by Hatje Cantz from 1889 to 1940 is such a rare treat for me! This book is part of my Birthday present ....and I am so happy that my intro to Lotz or Loetz is such a wonderful addition to my other Bohemian books that I already have!

Presented here is a second group of early Premo Camera catalogue covers featuring women. As you can see, there is a common theme of travel which supports a marketing message of camera portability and ease-of-use. Left-to-right, the dates are 1910, 1915, and 1916. These windows into the past also illustrate changing fashion trends and vacation attire.

As a side note, the early camera models shown had red leather bellows. Cameras during this earlier period were good looking with black leather bodies and red bellows accented with bright, polished nickel plated hardware accents.

Just purchased this Anthony Hordern's General Mail Order Catalogue dated 1924. Unfortunately it has been rebound but whats inside got me , so I bought it. It has 1152 pages.
The content of the book is what amazes me.

I was organizing my library of early camera catalogues and was struck by the beauty of some of the covers. Presented here are examples with dates of (left to right) 1903, 1908, and 1909.

These beautifully rendered covers depicting women (as an effort to expand the camera market) started appearing on the Rochester Optical Company's Premo Camera catalogues in 1903 and continued into the early 1920s. IMO, each cover stands on its own in terms of artistic merit.

]]>Books / Catalogshttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/110946-artistic-vintage-camera-catalogue-covershttp://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/110946-artistic-vintage-camera-catalogue-coversThis is the a second edition of Beza’s Latin translation (first published 1565 in London) can't find one like it??? http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/110927-this-is-the-a-second-edition-of-bezas
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Just a little something I found at GW. I thought it looked fairly interesting as far as commercial molds go. A #57 8"x 7" Horse head bookend by Alberta's Molds Inc. It has a very Roman look to it and I liked the color and the rough texture treatment of the horse's mane. There was only one and it was marked "Alberta's" and not with someone's name and date like you would usually find. It might have been a salesroom sample to show how the mold would look. There is still a catalog (http://albertas.com/) but the molds are sold though a different company now. They've been around since the late 60's early 70's. -Mike-

Found this lovely pair in a rural charity shop
Their heavy cast metal and stand about 7" tall x 4" wide
In great vintage condition
The base as you can see from the pics have intended holes cut from them

A neat book that lists almost everything you could want to know and that was advertised for sale concerning the Fab Four ,Beatles Mania! This book catalogs the many endless items ,like costumes ,wigs,bow ties,posters,album covers,cartoons,toys, this book has it all!

Does anyone have the two books in this post?
If so do either or both have depictions of Chipped Ice / Glue Chip vases in them? I am looking for additional reference books for the glass I collect and wanted to know if they contained the information I was searching for before I purchased.

In Journeys to the Mythical Past the renowned researcher of antiquity Zecharia Sitchin reveals, for the first time, the existence of a secret chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid, and he tells his own story of an indefatigable dedication to finding the truth that almost cost him his life--accidentally or otherwise--when uncovering secrets of the Giza pyramids and Sphinx. Exposing hidden artifacts that contradict establishment assumptions or that baffle scientists, Sitchin's firsthand accounts of his explorations take the reader into the inner workings of the Vatican, the enigma of a futuristic computer from millennia ago, and the secret handiwork of a Divine Architect at Stonehenge, at Malta, and at a site in the Americas.

Looking deep into antiquity, Sitchin offers astounding evidence that links the Nazca Lines and a baffling adjoining site to the Departure from Earth of the Anunnaki, the ancient gods who, he believes, vowed to Return.

I have this book "The complete works of William Shakspheare plays and poems" illustrated edition dated 1855. Inside first page appears hand written note says "presented to (can't figure what name it says) by Mr Shaw" Paris March 1856. skip forward 2/3 pgs his picture with signature under pic. Next page has title and has By THE REV. WILLIAM HARNESS, M.A. bottom page reads, ALDEN AND BEARDSLEY, NEW YORK JC DERBY, 119 NASSAU STREET 1855.
Can someone help me get information on this book...please?
Thank you.

I never knew what these things were. They say "MADE IN ITALY" ON THE BACK. They are a lot larger than they look, takes two hands to move one, maybe 10-15 pounds each. Not even sure what they figures are made of, painted something. The seats are iron I think. I thought bookends at first, but the shape is kinda off... I can tell that they are quite old though. Anyone have any opinions?

Shown is a book containing charts fully indexed of all races run at recognized North American tracks in December of 1945. The book was published by Triangle Publications, Inc. in 1946 and is Vol. L. No. 12.

Found these at our local Salvation Army store. A nice heavy pair of grey and white marble "art deco" style bookends. They probably don't actually date to the "deco" period more like the 50's but they have the look. They're 6 1/4" tall and 4" at the bottom. It's surprising how heavy they are for their size, about 4 lbs. each. A few nicks here and there but not too bad. -Mike-

I am a huge collector of antique books. I just love forgotten knowledge and details about places & events that were noted as they occurred. Something that these days historians can't do or impress me with.
Back in the 19th century if you didn't know what the Unites States of America looked like. This book illustrated everything about the United States at the time of 1879. I am sure this book filled many adventure seekers heads with all sorts of crazy ideas. Such old print images and tales as: The Valley of Yellowstone Nat.'l Park, Hudson River at West point, Natural Bridge-Virginia, Minot's Ledge Lighthouse-Massachusetts, Niagara Falls, Down the Mississippi River, Saratoga Springs and Saratoga Lake, The Erie Canal, In the Adirondacks, Lumbering on the Susquehanna River, The Great Lakes and Their Cities, The East River, The Yosemite Valley, The Region of the Juniata, Mammoth Cave-Kentucky, Sabbath-Day Point & Lake George, The Great Horseshoe Curve on the Pennsylvania Railroad, The Wonders of the Colorado River, Fairmount Park-Philadelphia, Trenton High Falls-New York, Squam Lake-New Hampshire, and the White Mountains. This was all America was all about back then.

This is a book that my grandma had and I had never seen prior to her passing. I have no idea where it could've come from or if she even knew what it was. She was an antique dealer. It's obviously very old but not hand written although not all of the pages are uniform in size or shade of paper. It has regular numbers on every other page that begin towards the the front of the book but not in the front. They read from there to the front and pick up again in the back of the book. It's obviously in a different language but nobody can identify it. I've even had it to a book appraiser to see if he could help me but he didn't know either. It has from what I can find a total of three pictures in it, of which I'm posting two. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Even if it's just identifying the language. This seems to be a real stumper.

I Found this yesterday at work , when we were cleaning out the 25 cent room left over from the weekend!!! These are remains that are left over from the book, the reason being for keeping the remains is because I just loved the graphics and the art work that went into the book. this is the fifth printing of the book dated to 1904. I will be framing and matting these . the front is leather.

This is a German Family Register Book from my maternal great-grandparents. It begins with the 1902 wedding certificate registry and then includes a list for the children's birth information. The handwriting is all in that old-type German handscript and I was barely able to decipher some of it. It includes the official birth, baptismal, and some death certificates stamps, the last entry being my great uncle who died in 1965. It was especially sad to see that only two of their five children survived, my great-uncle (first-born) and my grandmother (third-born). Two of their children died within a month of birth and the last one was two months premature and died at birth. My great-grandfather was born in 1880 and my great-grandmother was born in 1878. They actually shared the same birthday, only two years apart. -- The book has hard cloth covers, is 48 pages in full, and is string bound. The book printer is noted as C.S. Winter's Book Bindery in Darmstadt.

This was a find from an estate sale this past weekend. I liked the cover and the subject. It was printed by the A. L. Burt company. Copyright 1927. When doing research the first edition is from 1927, but all of them were red linen hardbacks with a dust jacket. This one is green, no dust jacket, but a printed, glued on illustration the same as the dust jacket on the red copy. Inside there are some numbers and initials in pencil. So is this a first edition? A much later edition? Do the pencil marks mean anything? I am totally stumped on this and can't seem to find any like it.

Attended a great event today, a book signing for the 3rd edition of Bruce Tahsler's "The San Francisco East Bay 60's Scene Then And Now-Garage Bands and More," which features interviews with members of Cold Blood, Sly and the Family Stone, Tower of Power, Beau Brummels, and Peter Wheat and the Breadmen (to name but a few), all of whom played at "Teens N Twenties" concerts produced by Bill Quarry. Like the first two editions, this one is also going into the collection of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.

I got my copy signed by Quarry and Tahsler, as well as Don Ryder (he did many of the posters for Quarry's shows), Sal Valentino of Beau Brummels, Rick Stevens of Tower of Power (his inscription reads "Still a Young Fossil," which is, of course, a play on the Tower of Power hit that he sang, "You're Still a Young Man" on the album "Bump City"), Rodger Collins, Lydia Pense of Cold Blood (saw that band a bunch of times, including New Year's Eve 1970/71 at the Fillmore West), and Bob Birdwell of the Tarantels before he joined Peter Wheat.

Here's a link to an article I wrote a couple of years ago about Quarry and the East Bay music scene:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/rockin-at-the-rollarena-pre-summer-of-love/
Here's where to get more info about Teens N Twenties:
http://www.teensntwenties.com

Hey, just wanted to let you all know of a 2013 book that's been published.
Guide to Collecting Brown Manufacturing Company STARR Bottle Openers Since 1925
By Harold J. Eblen Jr.
Sold by Amazon.com LLC
Mine's on order. Haven't reviewed it yet.
Have a good one.

Update Dec 3. I have received and reviewed this book. It's well researched and history written. 5 Starr.
Ted

Recent Estate find in the 1.00 book area of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a leather bound book that has no copyright or publishing date. Titles " The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson in One Volume". Walter J. Black, Inc New York, N.Y. I was hoping someone could help me date this book or share any info related to it. This contains 990 pages and does say printed in the united states.

I am looking in this old book and found this scrap paper. looks like Harrison Chase union soldier taken prisoner. This book has been written from 1898 to the 1930s, Starter by my wife's Great Grandmother and finished by her son.

A very interesting look a Hollywood from the walls of Sardi the infamous hang out of the stars and movers and shakers of the time , the owner signed a contract with the artists to draw character portraits of as many stars that came through the doors in order to line the walls of the dining area at Sardi , the list reads like a who's who in the world of V.I.P. Scarce soft cover in great condition 1991 Vincent Sardi Jr. and Thomas Edward West Applause Books

A listing of Andy Warhol artwork at the Museum of Modern Art Exhibit. Looking through this book it is very clear that Andy Warhol saw the world and everything in it as a piece of art , from actors , rock stars, criminals ,cartoons, soup cans,bones , he could probably turn a piece of lint into a work of art ! A fabulous read! 1989 The Museum of Modern Art published on the occasion of the Exhibition.

A great find in perfect condition including the dust jacket ,which is almost never with the book or if so in terrible condition. This is an account of Andy Warhol's party days between 1976 and before his death in 1987 as it was told to one of his closest friends Pat Hackett. A kiss on the cheek of John Lennon . 1989 Estate of Andy Warhol , Warner Books hard back.

This is a 1965 edition of "The Story of the F.B.I." written by Earl Schenck Miers and illustrated with photographs. It is a 48 page paperback copyrighted and published by Wonder Books, a Division of Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. - Library of Congress Catalog Card 65-21505 - - - (S-15)

I was given this book some years ago by my late father in law . I think it is from the late 18 hundreds and looks very well used . The spine of the book has certainly seen better days . The book covers all manner of household management , makes for some quite amusing reading .

More J. B. Hirsch Beethoven items, this time it is the bookends that match the lamp, and cigarette/music box posted previously.

These bookends are near mint, they do have some flea bites on the black marble, but other than that they are great. The Ivorine hand came off of one during shipping but was easily repaired. The front of the piano near the bottom on both bookends are signed 1932 J B Hirsch, as are the piano benches under Beethoven's dangling coat tails. J. Ruhl's signature appears near the bottom of the bench on both. According to the Encyclopedia of Bronzes, Sculptors, and Foundries, Vol. 4, Page 1177, plate 4726 he was part of J. B. Hirsch's Collection Francaise.

This is an 1897 version of Alice Through The Looking Glass: What Alice Found There
It is in ok condition and has an inscription "To Georgina Moore, Christmas 1897"
Publisher is Altemus Young People's Library.

These are two 1945 and 1955 Sharon, Pennsylvania City Directories. These directories include Sharon, Farrell, Sharpsville, and Wheatland. These are great books to use for genealogical research, see where different businesses used to be, where people lived and worked, and see advertisements from the Shenango Valley. In one photo you can see an advertisement from Sharon Steel (which you probably heard of). Sharon Steel originated in Sharon, Pennsylvania.

Sharon, PA manufactured Coca-Cola bottles as well as steel. One of the biggest department stores was The Sharon Store, but Sharon also had Montgomery Ward, The Boston Store of Sharon, etc.

The Shenango Valley was a steel valley especially the city of Sharon, with many manufacturers like Sharon Steel Corp., Westinghouse, United States Steel and others.

This is a 1939 Massillonian Yearbook from Ohio. In one photo you can see that Paul Brown, who was affiliated with the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals, was the head coach for the football team. This is a very interesting old yearbook.

This is a souvenir book from 1951 marking Farrell, Pennsylvania's Golden Jubilee (50th Anniversary). In one photo you can see a congratulations from Sharon Steel. Sharon Steel originated in a city North of Farrell called Sharon, Pennsylvania. And in another photo is a congratulations from The Sharon Store in Sharon, Pennsylvania. The Sharon Store was in the building that now is called The Winner.

As a child my earliest recollection of literature was when my Grandmother Holcomb read "Alice in Wonderland" to my late sister and myself. One dark character in the book always held a fascination for me, the Cheshire cat. I have always wanted a figure of this dark mysterious feline.

I finally found a great Cheshire cat. It is a small English antique bronze one, manufactured about 1875-80. I discovered he lays well (but hangs over a little) on a 9", 2X4 name cut-out that was given to me for a birthday present back in 80's.

He is 4.75" long, 3.4 wide, and 4.75" from the tip of ears to the tip of his tail. His felt bottom needs replacing but other than that he is in great shape.

Hello! Posted earlier as WW-2 Navy Flight Yearbook, but now thinking about Comic Books, Donald Duck, Walt Disney, etc. Donald Duck invented in 1934! Over 20 drawings of him in this flight book John E. Boyd is my father and Donald Duck, Not me (Donald Boyd)! also on cover of flight Jacket 1940. Duck on cover is raised and puffed out and not flat, well done! 3rd photo is Cadet Donald hopefully off duty and not flying for at least 2-3 hours! This could have significance of D. Duck collectors, WW-2 Collectors or even comic collectors! maybe! Thanks for looking! Don Duck! oops Don Boyd sorry!

This is Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
This version was printed in 1970
The dust jacket is a bit tattered but the book inside is still in great condition.
I received this book as a Christmas present from my father many years ago.
Definitely my favorite book!

This is a beautiful book , written in Arabic script but I'm not sure what region , it has a lovely watercolor cover front and back, the binding is sewn together with simple string , but the inside covers have a thin sheet of paper glued to both front and back and the paper is very thin like rice paper. The inside page has a lovely design. I have absolutely know idea what it says ,but it reads from right to left. The bottom corner has some numbers that might be a date but I'm not sure they are either 1910 or 1940 it is hard to tell because of the small designs that are mixed with the numbers at times I thought it might be some type of religious script because of the format of writings on the sides that resemble some of the Arabic writings that I've seen on line . The front cover is stamped TAJ BOOK DEPOT CITY MARKET BENGALORE 2 . Would love some info. from anyone who can read Arabic or just has a clue what this book maybe all about!

This is the back cover in a wonderful geometric watercolor design and the inside view of the pages of script writings and illustrations. Here you can clearly see the construction of the binding that is sewn together and the paper is thin as rice paper,the book is lovely inside and out ,I'm not sure if the content is religious or not , would love to have some input !

This book gives new meaning to the Y.M.C.A. organization for me , I knew that they helped a lot of people in need , but what I didn't know was what a large part they played in the war efforts in the U.S. and abroad ,this book is a piece of history and documents everything from camps to, travel plans ,war supplies ,food , medical, building supplies,and even organizing recreation sports events to keep up troop moral . There are about 20 maps and charts that document their efforts from 1917 through 1919 . Service With Fighting Men , The Association Press 1922 vol.1 is an Amazing book!

I can't say that this is a interesting book yet because I have not read it . In my research of the book on line I found a lot of reference to devil worshiping concerning the author Albert Pike and the Order Of The Freemasonry and the U.S. connection. This book was given to members only and was to be returned to the organization upon that members resigning from the group or death, needless to say someone didn't follow those rules ,this copy was purchased at a yard sale,this book is no longer available since 1979 for governmental reasons. Now I'm curious ! A must read!

Marked galvano Bronze...These bucaneer bookends were left overs from a yard sale in Bethel Maine...pretty good shape, some chipping on back...value at least a hundred dollars........................................................................................................................

Another of my books I have collected over the years. Notice this is a Robert Abels weapons catalog from the very early 1950's. I've kept this mainly because I enjoy comparing the prices, now and then. For instance, on the left page of the hand guns, at the bottom, are two revolvers. The picture is a little blurry but I believe you can read the prices quoted. This firearm, even though the catalog states they have none in stock, goes for $35.00 to $85.00. I realize it's 60 years later but this gun may sell now for $2,000 to $7,000. Ah the good old days.

Are you interested in collecting shakers? Remember, knowledge is power, first go and pick up the books pictured above. All are out of print. however you can still find these books out there.
Many other books on glass may have a chapter or a couple of pages on shakers but these are the staples you will need.
Should anyone be interested in collecting, you may also contact me and I will be glad to help.

I can't find anything about this book online. The inscription signed
30 years in hell and the railsplitter.
Milan, Il.
William Lloyd Clark
When I researched this, wow did I find an interesting piece of history I knew nothing about. This man is now a role model of mine. In 1928 his house was burned down by a catholic spy along with all his publishing writings, books, etc. This was because Al Smith did not become president in 1928, he lost to Hoover.

The images displayed are a selection of photographs from a volume of five books pertaining to the history of art. The books, published in Germany circa 1851, Moyen Age et la Renaissance was owned by the infamous artist Charles Lennox Wright ll. The books are compiled of prints, lithographs and chromolithography art.
The books, although not in the best of conditions, is clearly an antique collection of historical art. They include artist from the the early beginning to 1950.
I welcome any and all information pertaining to this item.

von Däniken's startling theories of our earliest encounters with alien worlds, based upon his lifelong studies of ancient ruins, lost cities, potential spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Däniken's theory that we ourselves are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archeological discoveries that prove it...
* An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramid
* Thousand-year-old spaceflight navigation charts
* Computer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruins
* A map of the land beneath the ice cap of Antarctica

I thought these were beyond cool, and into AWESOME. A quick Google search turned up nothing like them. One has a couple of chips (must have been dropped, and no surprise, they weigh a couple of pounds each), but the other one is in great shape. The came into the store on Friday, I got them on Sunday. The lady who owns the store saw one of her dealers bring them in, and almost bought them on the spot. I'm glad I got them! Has anyone seen these before?

I've had this book for a very long time and am just now trying to discover anything about the picture of the lone man. I believe this to be Groucho Marx but as none of the pictures are identified, I'm not sure.
As you can see this book was published in 1976 but most of the pictures it contains are from early in the 20th century to the '50's.
I apologize for the quality of the copy but I don't have my editing software on this computer.
Maybe someone out there has seen this picture before and will recognize it or can tell me if Groucho was really this tatted up.

Calfskin, gilded edges 4.5" x 2.5". Most of this book is filled w/ numbers of sacks of potatoes and the names of the farmers. Some of it has quantities of wood to build a house, while others look like shopping lists and some strange stuff about courts and district attorneys. I wish i was better at reading people's handwriting. There seems to be some interesting inscriptions in this.

i was astonished to see that this book was published in 1937. The cover and the inside illustrations by Covarrubias seem so much more modern or ahead of their time. It's a very beautiful book - originally published in a much plainer form in 1916.

This is my way of coming back .I have been out doing stuff to get my self back in order. The books are Signet books with Mad comic's inside. very nice. I pick them up at an estate sale here in clearwater Fla.Hope you like them .Keep read'm and collect'm there fun.Frosty21

I have recently purchased a work of art and when I took it out of the frame...behind the art was 4 hand painted panels of advertisements for books. They appear to be from the 1920's, from the information I've gathered on the books. They are hand painted and have a paper copy of the front cover of each of the books attached. They are in very very good shape...the colors are unbelieveable. The only damage I can see is the edges on a few were rubbed a bit and they have some tape which is water based, which I am going to remove. I know how. The only other thing I can see is that they cut a little off the bottom to fit them in the frame. This doesn't really detract from the beauty of the panels.
I was wondering if you could possibly help me figure out what they are and what they might be worth? I have looked all over the internet and cannot find anything like them. I'm thinking they must be pretty rare.
Thank you!

We managed to pick this up while we were away over the last few days. The glasses are commemorative for 1953 when the Qeen of England come to Australia. The glasses has slight wear on gold rim. The book was print on the Crown Jewels in 1992 if I ever sold it I would just throw the book in as a extra. The details i the book start from begining of the Crown jewels until 1992. The red & gold 3 peice cast money box is from 1953 there is another in Silver & gold also. To remove money just unscrew bottom & it comes away in 3 place base & 2 sides in pretty good order. In the begining I was led to beleive it was from 1964 when she came to Australia but that was just the glasses celebrating her 10 year coronation. I'm hoping this is more reliable information. I have also been lead to believe that this money box is rare.

Marches had led man into battle through out the ages. The Indian
war dance is a form of march. So is the tom-tomming of the African
warriors. And, presumably, our earliest warring ancestor roused themselves
to fighting pitch with the aid of a drum pounding out material beat.Marches also serve ideological purpose, as " La Mar-seillaise has come to symbolize the democratic spirit of France.

I inherited these from a close friend when he passed away many years ago. I don't know where he got them but he had them on a console table in his living room, so he must have liked them. We used to hit all the little country flea markets together.

There is no signature, and they are made of cheap pot-metal, but they sure scream "ART DECO!" don't they?

This is my first post here, so I thought I'd start with these two Mark Twain short stories that I picked up recently off eBay. I've read other short stories by Twain, but have never read either of these. Guess I better get crackin'!

This is a some what strange and beautiful ,but tragically sad life story of a very talented artist that suffered with pain for the latter part of her life after a bus accident at the age of 18 ,a broken spinal column and pelvis left her unable to have children and to live in continuous agony as shown in her many works of art, Frida's one comfort and love was her husband Diego Rivera and her love for animals and painting. There are 30 Taschen Postcards .

The horrific, despicable, derogatory images you have seen are examples of materials that were once the norm in Americsn history.
This book was published in the late 19th century by Donahue Henneberry & Co. of Chicago Ill. They were a printing and binding establishment that specialized in childrens books including nursery rhymes.
The earliest reference to Mother Hubbard is said to beSarah Catherine Martin, who published Old Mother Hubbard , 1768 - 1826.
This book, "Ten Little Niggers", printed in conjunction with Kosehner & Hayes. It has chromolithographed graphic detailed exaggerated images of black people. There is no doubt of its intentions. Be that as it may, this book is as much a part of American history as the Mayflower. In part, it's American literature.
If for any reason, the reader feels uncomfortable, I apologize. My intentions are mainly to share informstion.
I welcome any and all information pertaining to this item.

These images however cruel and or degrading they may be are examples of 19th and 20th century text books that were circulated through out the world to blatantly encourage children to be racist, sexist and or discriminatory toward black people.
This is proof that racism is taught not born.

These book are a few of the many, that were circulated with a purposes. Among the examples are a German version, an English verson from England, an American version and a Dutch version.
The title of the books are Ten Little Niggers, Nine Niggers More and Simple Addition of a Little Nigger.
Many people tend to refute this. But, unfortunately for them they can't denie the existence of the matreials.

I thank for looking. Please understand that I have no intention of offending anyone. My purposes is soley that of education.

This post is inspired by Bratjdd's recent post of Gone With the Wind Book. I love this book and movie and everything about it. This 1954 edition was given to me by my husband's grandmother. Inside it is stated that it is a book club edition.
The first picture is the front cover and the second picture is the back. The third picture is my Persian version of it. When we flee from Iran, this was one of the only things I brought with me...

Like to share my find a Book by Margaret mitchell
Gone With The Wind, this is a renew copy 1964.
I love the Movie so much but never read the book
I just hope I have time to read it since I seem to be here a lot :))
Hope you like it!

I have had thesse for a few years now & could not part with them because at the time it was the first time that I had seen this type. Since I have seen the same item on Ebay & beleive them to be made of Melmac, age 1950's or there abouts. Hand made & Oriental. If anyone has more information it would be appreciated. Sorry Packed away & do not have measurements.

I can't believe someone threw this out in the trash! It's in beautiful condition - appears to never even have been read. the illustrations are incredible! great use of shadow and light in them. is this book worth anything?

the 50s dustjacket really makes this special, although it does look like a pretty good read. i've never read zola before... i got these books today at Urban Ore in Berkeley - which means somebody threw them out in the garbage. yikes!

The illustrations are also by Will James. This is the Illustrated Classic version from 1929 - with lots more illustrations than the others. It's in pretty good condition too. In good, used condition. Also there's a bookmark in it which is from when it was first bought in 1929 and it mentions 'Wind In the Willows' on it.

This book has some of the wildest photos of the early sessions of the Fab Four , The Beatles were before their time in many ways as far as music and controversial album covers, check out the infamous meat and baby cover photo , love to find that one! The photos by Bob Whitaker.

This is one of the most beautiful book of plates that I have seen in quite some time. The artist is Greuze a painter of woman during the 18th century , he was said to have painted woman in a most beautiful light , this book has 44 full plates of some of his paintings each one has a titled paper lining for each plate, the book spine is loose but the inside is in perfect condition, usually a book such as this age would be stripped of the plates ,every one is intact, a lovely book !

The Bible and King Solomon's Temple in Masonry 1968 by John Wesley Kelchner the illustrated edition, filled with many beautiful images of King Solomon's treasure room and Alters , Porch of Judgment ,exterior of the House of Forest and a diagram of the masonic symbols and meanings a wonderful piece!

The first thing you will ask yourself is: "A book should nevertheless not belong in this section?" That is true. But since this book has a link to antique jewelry it is a very valuable (theoretical) gain for the antique jewelry collector. Therefore I thought it would be useful to post it here.
All text is available in three languages: English, French and German. Thus, for a large number of CW viewers to be read and see.
It is full of beautiful pictures which I can only show some here.
It is a very large and bulky book and weighs 4.5 kg.

Very interesting book also for antique jewelry collector/enthusiast. This book not only provides all the clothes but also the matching in time / used (peasant)jewelry.
CONTENTS:
Part I ? The Ancient World (Egypt, Assyria, Israel, Persia and Phrygia, Greece, Etruscan, Greco-Roman, Rome, Barbarian Europe, Celts and Gauls)
Part II ? The 19th Century - Beyond the Borders of Europe (Oceania, Africa, Eskimos, North American Indians, Mexican Indians, South American Indians, China, Japan, India, Ceylon, Middle East, Orient, Turkey)
Part III ? Europe 400-1800 (Byzantium, France-Byzantine, Poland, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, England, Holland)
Part IV ? Traditional Costume Till the Late 19th Century (Scandinavia, Holland, Scotland, England, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France) Part V - Patterns and Templates.
About the Author:
Introduction by Francoise Tetart-Vittu, head of the graphic arts
department at the Musee de la Mode et du Costume de la Ville de Paris.
She studied art history at the Sorbonne and is specialized in costume
history of the 18th and 19th centuries. The author of many books on
costume history and curator of exhibits, she lives and works in Paris.
I hope you enjoy!!

Ok Folks, before there was google translate, for a young foreign girl, there was this cute little dictionary. I love this little thing. I used it and you can tell it is not in the best shape. What's best, it belonged to my dad when he studied in US in early 60s. :)

This is my lot of old railroad books, five of them are time books. I was going through some boxes in the attic and found these so I don't know where they came from. The oldest one is dated July of 1917. All are in good readable condition

This is a journal of railroad track maps and timetables, printed in May of 1946. I bought it in an antique shop while on a road trip. all the pages are there and readable. I feel its a good addition to my railroad collection.

These little book set ive gotten when went down to Chicago in 2005 , and gotten these from a furniture store that sold Armani Casa Furniture and man it was nice to see and feel the furniture in person!!

Someday I can find some of these little accessories in a thrift store.

carl chinn-local birmingham historian, book 'homes for people', history of birminghams council houses from 1849-1999, from slum clearance to estates of the 1920s-1990s and the tower block era of the 1960s-1970s.

This is a JB Hirsch 1932 grey metal Bookend That I picked up The other Day At Goodwill For $3.00. Displaying Beethoven Playing The Piano. He's Reather beat up from years of playing and holding books up on book shelves. seems he played his heart rite out of his chest as you can see he has a chunk of metal missing out of chest. i have seen a set of theses beethoven bookends go for $350. This poor fellow has seen better days. Thanks For looking!! Have A Blest Day!!!!

This is an interesting children's book i picked up the other day. i'd never seen one of these before, but it's pretty cool. Very early for that sort of homemade 'Little Prince' style of book. very simple and kind of funny story....

In an antique shop today I found a signed copy of Lana Turner's 1982 autobiography, "the Lady, the Legend, the Truth." Her inscription reads, "For Bob Orth - With Gratitude, Lana Turner." The book was published by E. P. Dutton and also came with a Certificate of Authenticity and a newspaper article noting her passing.

Just found this set of bookends identical to the ones Sean posted, need to find out more such as value, if anyone can help. They are not shinny but rather a dirty copper or bronze color. Please email me, thank you.

Here's another very cool book i found at the same shop as the California Illustrated one. This one is very interesting and utterly obscure! i read it cover-to-cover the day i bought it. now i can tell the difference between a male and female earthworm. did you know that we have giant earthworms here in california - very rare though?!

I'm very excited by this find! it's a wonderfully illustrated book edited by F. K. Warren, R.B.S. with numerous wood engravings by the best artists. published by De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., Boston. the condition is near-pristine. it looks as if nobody had ever even opened it up. leather bound and gilt ends. yay!!

I have had in my possession now for many years a book entitled Johnnie by E.O. Laughlin. It is such a treasure filled with photographs to help document the life of Johnnie. I have done lots of research and have found lots of tidbits about this particular book. It was given by E.O. Laughlin to Dr. George H. Hunt October 29, 1898. He inscribes the book to Dr. Hunt and makes notes about some of the pictures in the book. The book is later returned to A. B. Laughlin by Mrs. Cretors. During my research, I found that she was the mother in law of Dr. Hunt. In 1955 the book is presented to "our dear cousin Willard O. Wilson" and it is again signed by Annie B. Lauglin and her daughter Margret Welch. this book was treasured for so many years by so many people. Can anyone tell me anything about the people who cared enough about this particular book to hand it down from person to person.

I found this miniature book in my mom's pile of "see if anybody wants these things":
My research found this:
Rare vintage miniature Koran, preserved in its original custom-fitted, decorated metal case. Distributed by Air France in the early 1960s to commemorate the opening of the Paris to Jeddah, Saudia Arabia line and offered to muslim passengers making the annual holy pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city of Islam and birthplace of Prophet Muhammad, for "the Hajj." Green leather binding with an overall gilt decoration on the cover, spine and back. All edges gilt. Arabic text throughout. The case features a highly elaborate engraved arabesque decoration on the cover and back and has a keychain / keyring attachment. The little book fits perfectly inside the case's recessed interior compartment, which is stamped "offert par Air France." An attractive and rare tiny religious book produced in very limited numbers.
Size: 7/8" x 3/4", unpaginated, ca. 1964

This is two poems In Flanders Fields and Victory, in Flanders Fields was written by John McCrae in 1915, Victory was signed with a -M- in 1919. This poet took up the task to bring it to triumphant fulfilment.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON REVERE:http://reverewarehistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/revere-ware-history/
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Another set in my collection and love these had these for 2 years now!!!

Another metal art deco pixie bookend, these were designed first in 1927 by Henri Fugere. This was a single item which I buy also but usually come in pairs. Fugere was born in 1872 and died in 1944. He studied with Barrias, Cavelier, Peusch, etc and exhibited at The Salon, Paris.

See my other listings of these items in pairs.

This one was all black and the paint job does not seem worn out as much as aged. It has the metal bottom that is painted black probably to look like marble. The figure has a very nice aged paint look which is in excellent shape, nearly unblemished.

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My grandma was nearly blind towards the end of her life, and I would help her out by reading her her mail. After many months of doing this she surprised me with this wonderful written history about the lives of my great great great grandfather Friedrich Fischer(1830-1916) and his family 1869-1963, and was written by my cousin Leone Fischer Griesemer. The stories are colorful and very well written. Some of them were downright embarrassing to read aloud to your grandmother:) The first photo is of Grossvater Fischer who was a master freemason, the second photo was of the Mayville school he helped build in 1876 and is listed on the national registry of historic places. The last photo is of his daughter Bertha Fischer Krause, my great great grandmother. Sitting on her lap with her head turned was my grandma age 1, 1913. Thank you all for letting me share.

Here you go Phil I can send it to your email when I get home. It also had a nice bit of family background. Maybe not one you'd want to put up in a child's room but pretty neat in a fierce Charlie Brown kind of way:)

This was a thrift store find from a few years back. I've always had an interest in my familys history and was thrilled to find this book with the McHugh coat of arms on a Gw shelf. It has wonderful full color coat of arms illustrations, and explains how last names have changed, and what region they originated. This is the American version published in the 1970s. If any of you have requests to see your shield, you can email me at my email address on my page:)

1985 Masters of the universe the sword of skeletor. Listen and Look come with book and cassettes tape. Still in the original packages Factory sealed and in mint condition. A great day for vintage toy hunting.

I believe this is a notebook of some kind from Lima(Peru). I also believe this is quite old. I am having trouble finding out about it, because I haven't found another on the Internet.
It measures 34cm(13 1/4in) long and 6 1/2cm(10 4/10in) wide when opened it measures 53cm(21 in) wide.
On the front it is inscribed with "HOC SIGNUM VERE REGUM EST." meaning "the true signal of the kings" in Latin.

A cute little book of the sweetest little characters by Joan Walsh Anglund filled with plenty of humorous stories of their adventures. I have found a few of her figurines and paperweights ,plates with some of her early characters on them . So cute!

Ludlum's fourth novel.
Ludlum explained the reason for his use of a pseudonym by saying he "had to publish Trevayne under another name. I chose Jonathan Ryder — the first name of one son, the second a contraction of my wife's maiden name — not because of potential retribution, but because the convention